Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century.

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From: l... Andrew Lih
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 02:26

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In article <4065@convex.UUCP> jjensen@convex.UUCP (James Jensen) writes:
>In article <14...@skye.ed.ac.uk> rbk@aiai.UUCP (Richard Kirby) writes:
>
>Bad Assumption.  Year numbering was started before zero was invented.  
>Thus the first year Jesus was alive was 1 AD. (The first year of our 
>lord.)


Well despite the fancy mathematics of the situation, historically
speaking, Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in 6 BC.  Yes, this
means that the people who started the AD notation were a few years
off.  No big deal...but just wanted to point that out.

/lih
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From: l...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century.
Summary: Jesus born when?
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.022640.5498@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 02:26:40 GMT
References: <18494@bellcore.bellcore.com> <552@enea.se> <8483@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1468@skye.ed.ac.uk> <4065@convex.UUCP>
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