Please explain my confused me like I’m 5 (0r 4 or 6).

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The concept of zero had not even been discovered at the time the calendar was designed.

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Almost. The first recorded use of ‘Zero’ was in Mesopotamia in 3BC/BCE. https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-zero

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this is absolutely wrong.

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