Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:44:04 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? Message-ID: <19991205124404.B43725@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991205012058.0097b100@mail85.pair.com>; from adam@whizkidtech.net on Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 01:20:58AM -0600 References: <199912040737.XAA08969@implode.root.com> <199912040742.AAA62858@panzer.kdm.org> <3.0.6.32.19991205012058.0097b100@mail85.pair.com>
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On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 01:20:58AM -0600, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> I believe the reason was that the mathematical significance of 0 was not
> discovered yet. Back then, a year 0 would have been an absurdity. They did
There is a new book on the history of zero that I haven't yet read, but
want to:
"The Nothing That Is : A Natural History of Zero"
by Robert Kaplan
ISBN: 0195128427
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195128427/103-8326897-9003029
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