I thougth everubody already agreed that the current decade was called the Bushshits.
As for feeling old, not really. I'll turn 40 in April next year, does that make me old?
Hard to believe the twenty-teens begin in four months...
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I thougth everubody already agreed that the current decade was called the Bushshits.
As for feeling old, not really. I'll turn 40 in April next year, does that make me old?
THANK YOU!! I thought I was alone in feeling this.
Problem is there WAS no year 0.
This epoch began in the year 1. Ten years later, a decade it was the year 11. 90 years later -one century has passed- it was the year 101. nine hundred years later, a millennium now has passed, it was 1001.
1001+1000 years - 2001.
This current decade (the first decade in the 21st century) ends on December 31, 2010. Sure, say "2000-2010" is "a decade" in the same way you'd say "1990 - 1999" is a decade - "the nineties." But 2000 was still in the 20th century. If we wanted to be *really* predantic, 2000 was "in the 90s."
But 1 + 10 = 11.
This millenium started in 2001. A decde passing in it puts us at 2011. That's math.
The next decade begins on January 1, 2011. Ten years after the millenium started, in 2001.
Wikipedia is written by readers. I can go on there right now and edit it if I wanted to.
How the decades/millenia end and begin? Decided by simple, basic, math.
1 + 10 = 11.
How the decades/millenia end and begin? Decided by simple, basic, math.
1 + 10 = 11.
I thought the answer was 110.
But, if I were born in 2000, I wouldn't be 10 years old until 2010!!! Oh noes!!!!!
Therefore, if the decade begins in 2000, it would end in 2010.... then the next one starts at 2011 and ends in 2021, and the third starts in 2022 and ends in 2032. Duh
I guess it depends when you want to say "the decade" began.
If "the decade" began in 2000 then it ends this year.
But, "officially" (again, since there was no year 0) the decade began in 2001.
1 - 11
11 - 21
21 - 31
31 - 41
41 - 51
51 - 61
61 - 71
71 - 81
81 - 91
91 - 101
101 - 201
201 - 301
301 - 401
401 - 501
501 - 601
601 - 701
701 - 801
801 - 901
901 - 1001
1001 - 2001
2001 - 2011.
It's all based on a religious event, which apparently occured at the end of year 0.
Which didn't exist.
I say we start again.
*presses reset button*
Which didn't exist.
I say we start again.
*presses reset button*
It was a joke chief. I'm a comp sci guy, believe me, we're well versed in the issues involved with counting from one, or counting from zero.But, if I were born in 2000, I wouldn't be 10 years old until 2010!!! Oh noes!!!!!
Therefore, if the decade begins in 2000, it would end in 2010.... then the next one starts at 2011 and ends in 2021, and the third starts in 2022 and ends in 2032. Duh
I guess it depends when you want to say "the decade" began.
If "the decade" began in 2000 then it ends this year.
But, "officially" (again, since there was no year 0) the decade began in 2001.
1 - 11
11 - 21
21 - 31
31 - 41
41 - 51
51 - 61
61 - 71
71 - 81
81 - 91
91 - 101
101 - 201
201 - 301
301 - 401
401 - 501
501 - 601
601 - 701
701 - 801
801 - 901
901 - 1001
1001 - 2001
2001 - 2011.
You don't count decades in the same manner as millenia. At least I never thought so. The term "1980's," for example. You can't have a "1980's" that includes 1990, that doesn't make logical sense. "1980's" = "all years beginning with 198_"...it doesn't matter whether there was ever a year zero.
That's right. A decade can start and end whenever you want. March 3, 1993 - March 2, 2003 is a decade, for example. Same with centuries. You can count them however you want. But when you talk about the *21st century*, you're specifically talking about the 21st century that has occurred since the flip from BC to AD, and that would begin on January 1, 2001.
With decades, however, we don't count them by time since 1 AD. We count them by the first three digits of the number. So the 1990s would end on December 31, 1999, whereas the 20th century century would end on December 31, 2000. If, on the other hand, rather than calling it the "20th century", you were to call the century "the 1900s", that would end on December 31, 1999.
Trekker, I'll save a spot for you next to me at the brick wall where I'm banging my head.
--Ted
--Ted
^^ No, because this decade, following social convention, began in 2000-- the first year following the end of the 90s. But the 21st Century and Third Millennium began in 2001.
At least until math grades improve.
That's because age is counted differently. Your age is based on the last year you completed-- if you're 21, that means you've been around for 21 complete years as of your last birthday. But years are "labeled" by their number. This is the 2009th year since the Common Era began. Going by age convention, the Common Era is 2008 years old.
