Kanata Yanagino Quotes
In Fact, They Didn't Even Keep Track Of Birth Dates Here. Instead, They Used A Traditional Method Of Counting A Person's Age. Newborn Babies Were "one Year Old," And Became One Year Older At The Start Of The New Year. As For The Reason It Didn't Start At Zero... I Was Briefly Afraid I'd Discover They Didn't Yet Have The Concepts Of Zero Or Place-value Notation. In Fact, They Had Both. Newborn Babies Being "one" Was Just A Holdover From Previous Times, Before The Numeral "zero" Existed Within Their Culture. Old
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