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Year zero

A year zero is a date where the current year for a given calendar system is zero. In systems which include a year zero, this year would be the epoch. Year zero does not exist in the Anno Domini (AD) calendar year system commonly used to number years in the Gregorian calendar and Julian calendar. Instead, AD 1 is treated as the epoch, so that the year 1…

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Year zero

Nodes67
Edges66
Triples37
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029851
Components1

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Year zero

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related to history · 24
Year zero → AD, Ante Christum, BC, Cassini, Cassini II, Christi, Christum, Finally, French, German, He, In, Jacques Cassini, Jesus-Christ, Johannes Kepler, Kepler's Christi, La Hire, Moon, Philippe, Post Christum
related to ISO 8601 · 9
Year zero → ASCII, BC, BC/AD, Because, Earlier, Gregorian, ISO, Several, The
related to Computing · 3
Year zero → DateTime, Perl CPAN, Programming
is a · 1
Year zero → date where the current year for a given calendar system is zero

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year zero bc years ad used era anno use number calendar system also domini bede gregorian astronomical epoch julian iso

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Year zerois adate where the current year for a given calendar system is zero0.90text
Year zerorelated to ComputingProgramming0.60section
Year zerorelated to ComputingPerl CPAN0.60section
Year zerorelated to ComputingDateTime0.60section
Year zerorelated to historyIn0.60section
Year zerorelated to historyGerman0.60section
Year zerorelated to historyJohannes Kepler0.60section
Year zerorelated to historyRudolphine Tables0.60section
Year zerorelated to historyHe0.60section
Year zerorelated to historyChristi0.60section
Year zerorelated to historyAnte Christum0.60section
Year zerorelated to historyPost Christum0.60section

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