RE: 00:00:00 or 24:00:00

The book I recommended addresses that issue - they denied the existance
of zero.
To them the existance of zero denied the existance of the gods.
There is no roman numeral for zero - the first roman numeral is "I".

The early church having grown up in Rome continued to perpetuate the
non-existance of zero for several centuries.

This also explains why we are in the 21st century in the 2000's - there
is no zero year.
We went from 1 BC to 1AD without a zero.

Zero is a modern concept - time keeping and mathematics pre-date the
notion of zero.
This helps to explain why division by zero is invalid when the true
answer is that division by zero equals infinity.


John Arnold
(301) 354-2939


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Subject: 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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