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View Poll Results: Is 2010 the first, or last, year of a decade | |||
It's the first year of a whole new decade. | 12 | 54.55% | |
Your brilliant logic tells me it's the last year of the decade. | 9 | 40.91% | |
Don't you dare argue with your mother, I carried you for 9 months, uphill both ways... | 1 | 4.55% | |
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01-04-2010, 03:33 PM | #46 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
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01-05-2010, 08:03 AM | #47 |
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Man's been woken up on New Years Day.
Wife: Oy, wake up, it's 12 o'clock! Man: No details. What Decade Is It? |
01-05-2010, 08:14 AM | #48 |
Makes some feel uncomfortable
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01-05-2010, 01:04 PM | #49 | |
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Dana, imagine you're a 9 year old kid. From the moment you were born until your first birthday they referred to your age as months. You had not reached a year yet. After a full year had passed, they referred to you as 1 year old. If you are a 9 year old kid, and your 10th birthday is approaching. On your birthday, you have reached the end of your first decade because at this point you have lived 10 full years. 0 to 1 1 to 2 2 to 3 3 to 4 4 to 5 5 to 6 6 to 7 7 to 8 8 to 9 9 to 10 10 = 10 years have passed = 1 decade. 100 = 100 years have passed = 1 century 1000 = 1000 years have passed = 1 millennium 2000 = 2000 years have passed = 2 millennium This means 1900 was the last year of the 19th century. 1901 was the first year of the 20th century. 2000 was the last year of the 2nd millennium and 2001 was the first year of the 21st century.
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01-05-2010, 01:12 PM | #50 | ||
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01-05-2010, 01:24 PM | #51 |
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I think the quality of this thread has decade
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01-05-2010, 01:32 PM | #52 |
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Oh, are you keeping score?
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01-05-2010, 01:36 PM | #53 |
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it's more of a half-score -a rimshot perhaps
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01-05-2010, 01:59 PM | #54 | |
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01-05-2010, 06:32 PM | #55 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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No they don't. If you are nine, and about to turn ten, you are in year ten. If the calendar had started when you were born, the first year would be year one, and at the end you would be one year old. You would be ten years old at the end of year ten.
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01-05-2010, 08:20 PM | #56 |
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Sure, I get what you are saying, but I didn't think Radar said that.
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01-05-2010, 08:31 PM | #57 |
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Sorry I cannot process your trains of thought but this thread reminds me of the last Sunday morning show.
The news person said that no pet name for this last decade was made because no one wants to own it and now I know why. People can't even decide how to count the days in a year. Last edited by skysidhe; 01-05-2010 at 08:44 PM. |
01-05-2010, 08:46 PM | #58 |
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Well duh, one at a time.
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01-05-2010, 08:53 PM | #59 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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I think he did. Your tenth birthday is the end of your tenth year, and the end of the 1900th year is the end of the 19th century.
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01-05-2010, 09:10 PM | #60 |
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Your tenth birthday is the end of your 9th year. You begin a 10th year.
A human lifespan isn't counted in the same way as the earths. It has leap years and leap seconds. 18th century 1701-1800 19th century 1801-1900 The Twentieth Century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. according to the Gregorian calendar, (2000 was the first century leap year since 1600). In the Gregorian calendar, a Century leap year is a year that is exactly divisible by 400 (and, thus, as with every other leap year, qualifies for the intercalation of February 29). The years 1600 and 2000, for example, were century leap years; the century years of 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not century leap years. The next century leap year will occur in 2400. Century leap years always start on a Saturday, and the February 29 intercalation of such years is always a Tuesday. The century year "divisible by 400" rule of the Gregorian calendar was considered an improvement over the previously utilized Julian calendar which had provided for a leap year every four years; this practice resulted, over the centuries, in too many leap days being added to the calendar and placing it out of step with the astronomical seasons. |
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