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Re: OT: Celestial maps

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Saturday, January 12, 2008, 18:23
On Jan 12, 2008 10:50 AM, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> wrote:
> Is there a difference? I thought it'd be the same thing since > technically 0 would be midnight of Jan 1, 1 CE.
Year 0 CE would logically be the year before year 1 CE. That happens to be the same year labeled by historians 1 BCE. So there's a 1-year magnitude discrepancy beyond the sign difference: 0 CE = 1 BCE, -1 CE = 2 BCE, etc. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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