lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoDid the year zero never exist ?message-squaremessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up197arrow-down1message-squareDid the year zero never exist ?lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square78fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agoThe concept of zero had not even been discovered at the time the calendar was designed.
minus-squareArcticAmphibian@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoAlmost. The first recorded use of ‘Zero’ was in Mesopotamia in 3BC/BCE. https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-zero
minus-squarePowerCrazy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agothis is absolutely wrong.
The concept of zero had not even been discovered at the time the calendar was designed.
Almost. The first recorded use of ‘Zero’ was in Mesopotamia in 3BC/BCE. https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-zero
this is absolutely wrong.