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We Are Missing 33 Years
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Richard Ruquist on October 17, 2003 11:09:38 UTC |
BC went to AD at the time of birth. However, we still lost one year because the calendar starts at 1 at birth. Only the Hindus had the concept of zero at that time. It was later on that Islam introduced zero to the west. You would think that god would have told the christians or jews about zero.
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