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Postby Richard K Niner » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:07 am

So there's no 0 AD?
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Postby Muninn » Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:58 am

I thought it was like 4 BC, the reason being astronomers found one of the known comets passing close by Earth which could have been the 'star' the three wise men saw. I might be remembering wrong however.
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Postby osprey » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:05 am

So there's no 0 AD?
The number zero didn't exist back then Image
So there was always something then? I guess that means the number of BMWs in existence was not 0? So either BMWs existed, or there were -1 BMWs, and the world owed the people a BMW.
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Postby CodeCat » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:24 am

I think he means it wasn't discovered/formalised yet.
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Postby Tom Flapwell » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:33 pm

The 4 B.C. figure comes from the fact that King Herod died that year. But historians are not unanimous on it. Estimates range from 6 B.C. to 2 A.D.
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