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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 56180 Gender:	Re: This Century Reply #15 - Feb 12^th, 2026 at 11:34pm So ZERO is like Dark Matter? We know it's there, we just can't see it.
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Reply #16 - Feb 13^th, 2026 at 11:04am

Setanta wrote on Feb 12^th, 2026 at 11:28pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Feb 5^th, 2026 at 4:20pm:

Just as a point of interest, what was the date of the first day of the present Century?

I'll bite. 1/1/2001. The calendar does not do 0 so to speak. A century is from year 1 to 100 inclusive. There is no 0 between 1bc and 1ad, counting starts from 1.

That appears to be right, and why it is contentious is that this century is the first century of the Third Millennium, but the start of the millennium was celebrated on the 1/1/2000.

So there is an error somewhere.

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Reply #17 - Feb 13^th, 2026 at 11:11am

Jasin wrote on Feb 12^th, 2026 at 11:34pm:

So ZERO is like Dark Matter? We know it's there, we just can't see it.

The Romans whose calendar is in use now did not have a dedicated numerical symbol for zero in their additive, non-positional system (e.g., I, V, X). Instead of a zero digit, they used the Latin word nulla (meaning "none") or sometimes a blank space to represent the absence of a quantity.

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15177 Armidale Gender:	Re: This Century Reply #18 - Feb 13^th, 2026 at 11:22am All the Romans living at 0 AD became dark matter, under Caesar Millenium. Some went to Britain to beat the 1st January bug and became timeless. Arabs with a zero increased in size overnight.
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Reply #19 - Feb 13^th, 2026 at 4:39pm

tallowood wrote on Feb 13^th, 2026 at 11:11am:

Jasin wrote on Feb 12^th, 2026 at 11:34pm:

So ZERO is like Dark Matter? We know it's there, we just can't see it.

We use the Gregorian calendar which superseded the Julian and is more accurate..

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15177 Armidale Gender:	Re: This Century Reply #20 - Feb 13^th, 2026 at 4:57pm Yes the Julian calendar began on Jan 1st, 45 BC. It got a bit fuzzy at year 45 and was a mess by 46 which wasn't BC at all.
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