Re: [SuSE Linux] How does Y2K affect the Linux Platform or Apps?

[lunaslide]

At 08:56 PM 1/5/99 +0100, you wrote:
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>On 05-Jan-99 Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
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>> This just moves the question one place. Why was there no year zero?
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>The number zero was a reasonable late invention. My encyclopedia mentions it
>first being described in 825AD, but is known to have been in use a couple of
>hundred years by then. It was pretty much a mathematical revolution.

It was in use a lot earlier than that in, for instance, the Mayan calender.


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