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

  • @jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    481 year ago

    Yes. They skipped right over. It confused many people at the time: a whole year of their lives, gone. Many centuries later when zero was invented, an explanation was finally offered as to why that happened.

    • gregorum
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      11 year ago

      For those who don’t know, the concept of zero wasn’t discovered until the sixth century in India, and then either transferred or rediscovered in about the eighth century in Arabia.