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From: David Madore
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:00

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Tom Waters wrote:
> Does anyone remember whether the French revolutionary calendar had a year
> zero?

They did not. The dates were written in roman numerals, so they did not
make provision for a zero. The calendar wasn't supposed to be used to
refer to pre-revolutionary days, either, so there would be no negative
years (they would be written in the old gregorian calendar). Neither did
they have a month zero or a day zero in each month.

     David A. Madore
    (david.madore@ens.fr,
     http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/index.html.en)

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From: David Madore <madore@clipper.ens.fr>
Subject: Re: Pi day
Date: 1997/03/20
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To: Tom Waters <twaters@use.usit.net>
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