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how many times will you try to explain to you friends tonight that 2010 isn't the last year in the decade, but rather the first year in the new one?

>> No.2277580

ONCE

>> No.2277584

>implying 2010 isn't the last year in the decade
>2001-2010
>2011-2020

>> No.2277586

none, cause that wrong

>> No.2277585

Never. I'm not a raging homosexual.

>> No.2277593

>>2277584
2020 - 2029 = the '20s

>> No.2277594
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>>2277586

so there was a year 0 CE then?

>> No.2277597

a decade is simply 10 years, so you can define the start and end points of the decade however you want.

>> No.2277606

>>2277593
>implying "the XX's" is a defining scientific term for a decade and not merely a colloquialism

>> No.2277611

I thought decades are numbered based on the number in the tens digit.

I.e. the

naughts = 0 in tens
teens = 1 in tens
twenties = 2 in tens
etc.

The 90's started in 1990 not 1991.

>> No.2277613

>>2277594
You are arguing in my favor.
No year 0 means first decade was 1-10, the second 11-20, etc
Keep going on and you get to the current decade, 2001-2010

>> No.2277619

>>2277606
Yes

>> No.2277621

>>2277611
>>2277593
exactly. this.

>> No.2277624

>>2277576
NO SHIT FAGGOT WE ALREADY NEW THAT.

DON'T YOU REMEMBER LAST YEAR?

>> No.2277641

I won't do it at all, and you'll probably manage to do it twice before your friends realize what a retard you are and shun you.

>> No.2277651

>>2277641
>implying YOU'RE A STUPID FAGGOT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_(decade)

>The 2000s was the previous decade that started on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009.

THIS SHIT IS COMMON SENSE.

>> No.2277662

But our earth isn't 2010 years old. Who says that From the start of the earth day 0 wasn't some billion and 1 but rather something and billion and 2,3,4 or even 5 etc.. and and every decade would be from 2005-2015.

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2277690

Happy new year 42 A.T !!!!

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>>2277690
>that picture

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>>2277691
There there, it just hasn't happened yet.
Face the future with optimism.

But remember to check your seals every day.

>> No.2277701

>>2277690
>Equatorial mass driver
FUND IT

>> No.2277703

>Implying a decade has to go from 2000-2009, 2010-2019, 2020-2029, etc...
>Implying 2010 can't be the last year of the 2001-2010 decade

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>>2277696
BUT I WANT IT NOOOOOOOWWWW

>> No.2277709

>>2277702
You have my sympathies, support, and tears of frustration and disappointment.

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>>2277709
Oh well, want something done, do it yourself.

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2277728

We didn't start at year 0 idiots.

>> No.2277772

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(year)#Counting_intervals_without_a_zero

Learn to decade faggots. 2011 is the start of the new decade

>> No.2277785

What would we call this proposed 2011 - 2020 decade. It's neither the teens nor the twenties.

If you're going to define it it ought to have a name.

>> No.2277795

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_(decade)

> The 2000s was the previous decade that started on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009. It was the decade in which the 21st century and 3rd millennium began, with 2000 a part of the 20th century and 2001-2009 part of the 21st century.

Look fags,
Centuries start on '01 years and decades start on 'x0 years.

>> No.2277803

>>2277728
In fact, we didn't even start at year 1. The BC/AD system wasn't invented until the year 525, and the selection of the year 532 so that year 1 corresponded to Jesus' birth was just an educated guess. And then, on top of that, no one actually used this dating system until 250 years later, and there is some debate as to whether or not it was kept up properly during that interval; that is, we might have gained or lost a few years in there somewhere.

>> No.2277889

think in terms of decimals/fractions

we start on 0, 0.5, 1....all the way to 9, 9.5, 10

1990, 1990 and 6 months, 1991.....all the way to 1999, 1999 and 6 months, 2000

years of 1990 to 1999 is the decade
followed by 2000 to 2009, etc

deal with it

>> No.2277908

>>2277889
So 1CE-9CE is a decade of 9 years?

>> No.2277926

>>2277908
are you fucking retarded?

its a rhetorical question, you are

if you really need clarification, reread this post:
>>2277803

>> No.2277986

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade
It's not complicated.

>> No.2278023

This point has absolutely nothing to do with counting conventions nor decimals nor what makes "sense" in a mathematical or scientific way. It is about the colloquialisms to do with naming the (in the grand scale of things) completely arbitrary ten year time period.
Looking back, as has been said in this thread already, the 'eighties started on 1980 and finished on 1989. Therefore, so as not to contradict what has already, it seems, been decided, today is NOT the start of a new decade.

>> No.2278034

>>2278023
I comma'd the shit out of that post, sorry about that guys...

>> No.2278049

I used to care about this shit. But then I turned 12 years old.

>> No.2278052

>>2277986
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade
Exactly...
>a convenient and frequently referenced interval is based on the tens digit of the calendar year, as in using "1960s" to represent the decade from 1960 to 1969

>> No.2278055

They'd say "umm of course it's the first decade of the 10s. Why are you even making a big deal about this?"

>> No.2278060

YOU ARE ALL HORRIBLE PEOPLE

A DECADE IS A BLOCK OF TEN CONSECUTIVE YEARS WITH THE SAME THIRD DIGIT

THAT IS ALL THAT IT IS

>> No.2278062

Never, because I didn't know that.

>> No.2278147

>>2278060

>implying year 10125-10134 is a decade

>> No.2278158

I don't care because decades are the result of humans trying to see patterns and impose order on time where there is no synchronization with a natural cycle. The number at which we decide to roll over the digits to the left shouldn't decide our perspective on the world any more than it will without our conscious attempts.

Whoops. I mean: "Yeah! Pointless argument!"

>> No.2278182

>>2278060
> A DECADE IS A BLOCK OF TEN CONSECUTIVE YEARS

And to think that you had the correct answer and ruined it. Also, learn2latin faggots.