Re: The mistake of agriculture

From: Steve Davies (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 11:37:43 MDT

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    >
    > > Lee Corbin wrote:
    > > Sorry but you cannot know what would "be for you" if you really lived in
    > > 40,000 BC. You don't live in 40,000 BC.

    Spike said
    >
    > What happened when they were approaching the year 0?
    > Was it an early version of the Y2K problem? Did they
    > know about negative numbers? They must have panicked:
    > Thous, verily I say unto thee, next year is the year 1BC,
    > thence the following year shall be year 0. Thenceforth
    > whatsoever shall we do?
    >

    What I always wonder is how did they cope with counting backwards? Maybe
    that early Y2K problem is why they never had a year 0 and so caused lots of
    arguments about when the third millenium started!

    Steve Davies



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