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#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 15, 2019 [HINT]

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Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

Nice!

very nice! good one, fun one Joe!

Great image Joe.

Hmm, once again, a puzzle I marked as mod.look has become votable again.

That is strange....

btw, are you off a year? Should it be 2063 yrs ago? not that a year matters when you're talking millenia...

You're forgetting that there is no year 0.

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mmmmmm, no I didn't. 1-44 BC = 44 yrs. 1-2019 AD = 2019 yrs. If there was a year 0 also, then you'd be up to 2064

You celebrate Pi day? Science Channel had a special on cuz it's also Einstein's b-day and Hawking's d-day... How's that for science-riffic?

Great puzzle! Love the raised eyebrow.

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According to the web, to calculate no of years between a BC date and an AD date you add the number of years together and subtract 1 for the no 0 year. So 44+2019-1=2062

ok, you win....lol

With math we ALL win.

This is a common off-by-one error. The thing to remember is that we are not counting objects, but a line. So it's like using a tape measure. Tape measures start at 0. If we were to start at 1 we would need to subtract the 1 to get the right answer.

love this!

I don't think I ever knew there wasn't a year zero...never came up, I guess. Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed solving this puzzle, Joe...and I love the image as well!

The AD/BC era calendar was devised in 525 AD by Dionysius Exiguus. (Which wasn't 525 until he said so.) Before then*, years were usually counted in eras, which were usually based on the current reign of the local monarch. (E.g. in the third year of King Harald Bluetooth)

And since the use of zero didn't arrive in Europe until the 11th century (from the Hindi via the Arabs via Moorish Spain), a year 0 wouldn't have occurred to anyone for another 500+ years.

*Actually, we still technically count in an era - Dionysius Exiguus just standardized that era on the "year of the reign of our lord, Jesus Christ", "anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi" instead of the local monarch.

thanks for the history lesson, Joe! ;-)

I like learning, so I tend to assume everyone else does, too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

<=_=> Me, too.

Extraordinary, the solve, the image, the comments!

It was 2062 years ago today, Sgt Pepper taught the band to play...

It doesn't *really* fit the meter.

Nice!

Nice image.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.

How did I never come across this puzzle and its wonderful comments? Five stars for the image, the solve, and each f the comments!

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