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John,

I understand that, but you decided that, because the Greeks and the Romans did not know zero, the true value of midnight is '24:00:00'; i.e. 24 hours, zero minutes and zero seconds.

Joep Beckeringh


John Arnold (MFS) schreef:
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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