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Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"

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From: Noe Gutierrez Jr.
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:00
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Michael Legner wrote:
> 
> So where do year 0 belong then? To the century BC? In that
> case I guess you would say that the number 0.1 belongs to
> the interval (-9.999999..., 0.99999999...) !? I just don't
> understand where this come from? I mean, year 0 is the
> equivalent of 1000 and 2000. There's nothing special about
> year 0 other than it appearing in two centuries (before and
> after Christ, but that's because we're negating the steady
> flow of time --- compare Fahrenheit to Kelvin...)
> 
> I think each century starts with 0, 1000, 2000 and so on...
> 


	THERE IS NO YEAR ZERO!!!

	If you want to compare BC and AD time to a number line, zero is the
infinitely small POINT between positive and negative. It is the
beginning AND end of AD and DC, but it is not part of them.
	


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From: "Noe Gutierrez, Jr." <no...@SPAMKILLERci.bryan.tx.us>
Subject: Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"
Date: 1997/06/10
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