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Re: 00:00:00 or 24:00:00

Teensy weensy little question: how did the Greeks and Romans represent this 'true value'?

Joep Beckeringh


John Arnold (MFS) schreef:
If you read the book, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by
Charles Seife, you will find the explanation of this problem. Zero is
ratjher a late comer to western numbering systems - neither the Greeks
or Romans who created our time keeping principles had a concept of zero.
Therefore, the correct answer is that when the clock was created, there
was no zero, so the true value of midnight is 24:00:00.

John Arnold
(301) 354-2939


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