On Oct 20, 1995 20:54:02 in article <Re: Decades>,
[log in to unmask] (Rick Toomey)' wrote:

>I'm not a mathematician, but here goes.  There is no year 0 (zero), so
>the first century extended from year 1 through year 100.  The second
>century would have extended from year 101 through year 200.
>This would continue so that the current century began on Jan. 1, 1901
>and will end on Dec. 31, 2000.

i *am* a mathematician, and you're right: there's no such thingee as a year
0 [zero]. this is *not* because zero was discovered/invented/whatever till
later in history. this whole concept revolves around using someone's life
-- a.d. and b.c., right? -- as a turning point in history: on one side is 1
bc, on the other is 1 ad. there is no 0 bc *and* there is no 0 ad. there is
no 0 anything.

so, if we're on a math kick: is the book in which fermat declared, in a
marginal note, that he had a solution to that famous theorem [a^n + b^n =
c^n, where n > 2 and n is an integer] in a museum? which one?

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