Every South Korean turns a year younger

Re:Every South Korean turns a year younger by maxerickson on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @08:06PM (#36500486)

We can include a year called 0 in the first century, no problem.

All we have to do to get a year 0 is decide that there was one.

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Re:Every South Korean turns a year younger by tourmalinetaco on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:42AM (#36504297)

> All we have to do to get a year 0 is decide that there was one.

But it’s not one, it’s 0

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Re:Every South Korean turns a year younger by zarzavat on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @09:20AM (#36506040)

For that matter let’s get rid of the asinine BC system and just use negative years AD.

The thing that gets me is that when they invented the CE notation, they went to the trouble of inventing a “BCE” notation for BC. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!

Also while we are fixing broken modular arithmetic, let’s add a proper modulo division operator to all the languages that got % wrong :)

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Re:Every South Korean turns a year younger by madcaptenor on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:18AM (#36506863)

What you want is called "astronomical year numbering" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering), so you have 1 BC = 0, 2 BC = -1, and so on. Astronomers are about the only people who would need to do math on negative years.

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