lemmyreader to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 11 months agoDid the year zero never exist ?message-square79fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up197arrow-down1message-squareDid the year zero never exist ?lemmyreader to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square79fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregregorumlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoThe concept of zero had not even been discovered at the time the calendar was designed.
minus-square@ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoAlmost. The first recorded use of ‘Zero’ was in Mesopotamia in 3BC/BCE. https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-zero
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.