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Did the year zero never exist ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Please explain my confused me like I'm 5 (0r 4 or 6).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh I see. Sure, historically it makes sense that years have been ordinal numbers. But in the modern era with all our math and computational knowledge, it is not convenient anymore. It means off-by-one errors are easy to commit when comparing BC and AD years.

This is why programming languages all index from 0 rather than 1 (knuth and lua be damned)