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Please explain my confused me like I'm 5 (0r 4 or 6).

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[-] brianorca@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Also note that before this switch, years were often designated in relation to the founding of a city or by the start of a ruler's reign. There were always ordinal numbers, so the first year of a reign would be year 1, and there was never a zero, because it was year X of a previous reign.

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