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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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Old 01-06-2010, 09:12 AM   #1
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Your tenth birthday is the end of your 9th year. You begin a 10th year.
That doesn't sound right. Your first birthday is the end of your first year, right?

How many birthdays do people have on average? Trick question. Just one. Technically the rest are anniversaries of your birthday.
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Old 01-06-2010, 10:35 AM   #2
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Your tenth birthday is the end of your 9th year. You begin a 10th year.
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That doesn't sound right. Your first birthday is the end of your first year, right?
Correct. Your tenth birthday is at the end of the year you are nine, which is the tenth year you have been alive.
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