From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 5 12:44:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639CE15466 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:44:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA43924; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:44:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:44:04 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? Message-ID: <19991205124404.B43725@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <199912040737.XAA08969@implode.root.com> <199912040742.AAA62858@panzer.kdm.org> <3.0.6.32.19991205012058.0097b100@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message