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