Year 200 start of the new millennium?
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Does it start from 0 or 1?
If you are one of the many, that believe that 2000 was the start of a new millennium AD or that getting to 2010 enters us into a new decade, then where is the year 0 (zero)?
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The notion that getting to the year 2000 was the start of a new millennium or that getting to 2010 enters us into a new decade, are both a bunch of badly counted grapes. Isn't time normally counted from zero?
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| 12-1-2010 | I challenge anyone to attempt write the value of 0 AD in Roman numerals. It cannot be done. | Caesar Augustus |
| 11-1-2010 | The earth was around for billions of years before some bipedal species decided to institutionalise a way to count a notion they called “time”. Year 1 (or Year 0, for all that matters) was completely arbitrary.
Year 1 is likely not year 0. It’s more likely to be many, many years ...more | Als |
| 11-1-2010 | The number zero had not been invented at the beginning of the present era.
The concept of zero as a number is attributed to India during the 9th century CE.
It did not reach Europe till the 11th century.
There was no 0 AD. The first year was 1 AD. The year before it was 1 bc. | The Count |
| 10-1-2010 | Does anyone actually give a s**t?! This guy must be a right laugh on a night out on the pop.... | Kryton needs to get laid |
| 09-1-2010 | I don't know the answer because I don't know what the count of the years started at: 0 or 1.
I prefer formats like the 24-hour clock since it goes from 0 to 59 and 0 to 23.
I always start at 0 where practical. | jR Maths |
| 09-1-2010 | The only reason - in my opinion - the millennium was celebrated on 1 January 2000 was because the first digit of the four year numbers moved from a '1' to a '2'
I am in total agreement with those who say that to complete the 1000 years the millennium commenced on 1 January 2001, ...more | CL |
| 08-1-2010 | zero is not a natural number: zero is not a cardinal number. when counting I begin 1 .. 2 .. 3 ... there was never a 0 anno domini. | Counter Reformation |
| 08-1-2010 | This is not something that I worry about but I do agree. The new millennium started 1st January 2001 not 1st January 2000. The new decade starts at the beginning of NEXT year not this year. | noname |
| 08-1-2010 | Do you have problems with relating to other human beings do you sit in a room by yourself worrying about this problem , if so you need to get out more and worry about something that actually matters. | Gill |
| 07-1-2010 | "Where is the 0 O'Clock?"
there was me thinking that midnight was 00:00.... I must be wrong | Rob |
| 07-1-2010 | Why do you even care about this? Get over yourself... | d |
| 07-1-2010 | Yes, the current millennium started in 2001 and the next decade will start next year. This is mathematically correct even though it may feel wrong.
As Kryton says there was no year 0, so the last year of the first decade was the year 10; otherwise the first decade would only have been nine year...more | grumpyoldwoman |
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