Donna wrote: > Dionysius invented the Anno Domini era about 525 C.E. > ... > He stated Jesus’ birth as 525 years ago without saying why
Do you have a reference? This seems to be, at least, controversial; see, Anno Domini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini#History Thus Dionysius implied that Jesus' Incarnation occurred 525 years earlier, without stating the specific year during which his birth or conception occurred. "However, nowhere in his exposition of his table does Dionysius relate his epoch to any other dating system, whether consulate, Olympiad, year of the world, or regnal year of Augustus; much less does he explain or justify the underlying date."[17] > historians mostly set the date at 1 BCE or sometimes 1AD and some others 4 BCE relative to other historic events. Reportedly, a long time ago, Kepler (yes, that Kepler) placed the death of King Herod in 4 BC based on an account of Josephus (yes, that Josephus) about a lunar eclipse occurring just before Herod's death. On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Donna Y <[email protected]> wrote: > The first decade of the Julien calendar had as many years as most people > have fingers on their to hands that they use to count. The years numbered > in Roman Numerals: > I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, > Of course in those days they did not write IV for four or IX for nine—that > came about after the printing press. > > Even without zero, decades have 10 years—count from 1 to 10 or 0 to 9. > > Roman numerals were additive before then and afterwards required adding > and subtracting but did not need 0 to be a placeholder because each numeral > had a value > > I 1 > V 5 > X 10 > L 50 > C 100 > D 500 > M 1000 > > The used conventions such as brackets or frames or bars to denote large > multiples to express larger numbers. > > You don’t use 0 to denote numbers in Roman numerals—if there are no I or X > they are not listed. > > The number 1732 would be denoted MDCCXXXII in Roman numerals > > C.E. 1 follows immediately after 1 B.C.E.—one year earlier than year one > is denoted 1 BCE high is important hen calculating spans of time that cross > from before to after year 1. A person born in 10 B.C.E. and died in C.E. > 10, attained age of 19, not 20. > > > Dionysius invented the Anno Domini era about 525 C.E.—many people were > expecting the end of the world to occur 500 years after the birth of Christ > In calculating a table of the dates of Easter --the new moon, was zero. > Dionysius was the first known medieval Latin writer to use a precursor of > the number zero using Roman for Null and Nil. He stated Jesus’ birth as 525 > years ago without saying why—historians mostly set the date at 1 BCE or > sometimes 1AD and some others 4 BCE relative to other historic events. > > > Y2K as the reason for the 1999-2000 celebrations in anticipation of the > end of the world as we know it thanks to sloppy date routines in much of > the computer code. Two thousand one paled by comparison to Kubric’s Space > Odyssey. > > > > Donna Y > [email protected] > > > > On Jun 1, 2018, at 10:44 AM, R.E. Boss <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> the first decade of the modern era (A.D., C.E.) has only 9 years in its > >> "decade"--1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (because there's no year 0). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
