>> Why would there be a year zero? If I have six eggs, they are eggs
>> 1-6. The is no egg zero. It's a meaningless concept.
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An egg is all or nothing, time is not like that, it could easily have been the case that someone decided that Jesus was born one year, or one summer or whatever ago so today he is one and we'll now count the summers and nine years later it was year ten or nine more summers had passed or whatever and Jesus was now ten years or ten summers.
Rather than eggs a better analogy is with liquids, filling up with fuel you start on 0 and go from 0.01 litre through to 0.99 litres and then you have 1 litre, (you are adding the first litre from 0.01 to 0.99 though you don't have one litre until you are on 1.00 litres) likewise the 20th litre commences once past 19.00 litres and finishes as the pump clicks from 19.99 litres to 20.00.
I was born in the 1900s though it was the 20th century, I am 55 though I'm in my 56th year.
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