"The 20th century ran from 1901 to 2000 inclusive" and other arguments for 0-indexing
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—that would lead to the exact same problem in reverse for ancient years. Century -1: -100, -99, ..., -1 CE Century -2: -200, -199, ..., -101
What I'm saying is that we need a year negative zero, which would immediately precede year zero
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Century 20: 2000 to 2099 CE Century 1: 100 to 199 CE Century 0: 0 to 99 CE Century -0: -99 to -0 CE Century -1: -199 to -100 CE etc.
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All of those annoying off-by-one errors introduced by subtracting BCE years from CE years? They are now off-by-two errors. You're welcome
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Surely we want ten's complement years? 3,2,1,0,...9999,...9998,...
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