• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    there was no year 0

    Just because no one said it was there, doesn’t mean it wasn’t.

    It’s like vaccines and autism and other things RFK doesnt believe in. They still exist!

    • blitzen@lemmy.ca
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      23 hours ago

      Dionysius did not use a year zero; the year preceding AD 1 was 1 BC.

      • “The Oxford Companion to the Year” by Blackburn & Holford-Strevens

      There was not a year zero. This isn’t a conspiracy theory.

      • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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        42 minutes ago

        BC and AD are separate numbering schemes- so just because there is no year 0 defined doesn’t mean you can’t extrapolate - 0 AD is the same as 1 BC, and you’ll have -1 AD which is equivalent to 2 BC and so forth…