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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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01-05-2010, 01:04 PM | #11 | |
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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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