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I have tried to ask believers if they think Jesus was born in year 1 BC or 1 AD. It sure would have been nice if there had been a year 0 for him to be born in!

As a maths inclined person, I have problems with accepting that years are not numbered by a dense sequence of integral numbers. You are probably aware that astronomers insist on a year 0, so before year 1, they disagree with the churches (Astronomical year numbering - Wikipedia[^]).

In our office building, we have a similar problem: The elevator goes from floor 1 to floor -1 with no intermediate floor 0. To ease our mathematical minds, we have agreed that there is a floor zero, but it is virtual. For the elevator, being a real world object, it is not possible to stop at a virtual entity, so it goes directly past floor 0. (With floor 0 being virtual, it also goes by virtual time; that is why we don't notice that we are passing it on the travel time from floor 1 to -1.)

I am not sure a year 0 would have changed anything. If you ask an average person to list the ten first whole numbers, he will start at "one, two, three ... ten"; he wouldn't go from zero to nine.

Funny enough: We count age from base zero, while (assuming that I have not been lied to), in e.g. Korean culture, age is counted from base 1: Your first year, you are 1 (lunar) year old. When you have lived for 12 moons, you turn 2 years old; you are in your second year. If you as an Korean about his age, not only must he multiply by the lunar/solar year fraction, but also correct for the off-by-one base. If we had considered our year number to represent the age of Jesus - 1 AD is a year after he was born, the year he was one years old, then he would have completed 100 years at year 100 (provided that he had followed in the tracks of guys like Adam and Moses, living for a few hundred years - he didn't, but that doesn't affect the principle). If you turn 100, we celebarte your anniversary when your age turns from 99 to 100, not when it turns from 100 to 101.

A common joke is how to distinguish between a computer amateur and a computer pro: The amateur considers 256 a round number. The pro consider 255 a round number, because he is counting from base zero.
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