The new decade
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Since so many otherwise intelligent people made snarky remarks about my assertion that the decade begins in 2011, not 2010, I will explain it quite simply as follows: Premise: There are TEN years in a decade Year 1 is the FIRST year of the decade Year 2 is the SECOND year of the decade Year 3 is the THIRD year of the decade . . . Year 9 is the NINTH year of the decade and here's the important part: Year 10 is the TENTH year of the decade, meaning that the new decade doesn't begin until Year 11. That means that 2010 is the TENTH year of the FIRST decade of the 2000's. The second decade will not begin until 2011. Arthur C. Clarke knew the truth, and that is why he named his book 2001 A Space Odyssey, not 2000 A Space Odyssey
"Listen now to a further point : No mortal thing has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration : There is only a mixing, and then a separating, of what was mixed. But, by mortal men, these processes are named : 'beginnings' " Empedocles
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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Since so many otherwise intelligent people made snarky remarks about my assertion that the decade begins in 2011, not 2010, I will explain it quite simply as follows: Premise: There are TEN years in a decade Year 1 is the FIRST year of the decade Year 2 is the SECOND year of the decade Year 3 is the THIRD year of the decade . . . Year 9 is the NINTH year of the decade and here's the important part: Year 10 is the TENTH year of the decade, meaning that the new decade doesn't begin until Year 11. That means that 2010 is the TENTH year of the FIRST decade of the 2000's. The second decade will not begin until 2011. Arthur C. Clarke knew the truth, and that is why he named his book 2001 A Space Odyssey, not 2000 A Space Odyssey
So you welcomed in the new Millenium on New Years Eve 2000/2001? that would've been a year later than everyone else did it. Most people don't care what is correct, they just care about what makes sense to them.
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The last year of the 19th century was 1899. The first year of the 20th century was 1900. When runners are all lined up to race the clock is set at zero. When you were born the minutes of your life started ticking, from zero.
My reality check bounced.
In that case, the last year of the 1st century was 99 A.D. And the first year of the 1st century was what? 0 A.D.? That year didn't exist. So then you're saying the first year of the first century was 1 B.C. The reason people disagree with you is because they're position is that the first year of the first century was 1 A.D., therefore the last year of the first century is 100 A.D.
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ChrisBraum wrote:
But 1BC to 1AD is two years
Nope, one year. After Dec 31st 1 BC comes January 1st 1 AD. There is 1 year between i.e. Jun 1st 1 BC and Jun 1st 1 AD
Which of course makes no sense at all BC = Before Christ, AD = After Death (i.e. Christs Death) so there must have been some 30years+ in there, which just goes to show that our calender is meaningless, it's just some easy way for us all to create a time to talk in Outlook.... So there you have it, I blame it on Microsoft.... :) (should I actually have said "time is meaningless, lunch time doubly so...")
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Since so many otherwise intelligent people made snarky remarks about my assertion that the decade begins in 2011, not 2010, I will explain it quite simply as follows: Premise: There are TEN years in a decade Year 1 is the FIRST year of the decade Year 2 is the SECOND year of the decade Year 3 is the THIRD year of the decade . . . Year 9 is the NINTH year of the decade and here's the important part: Year 10 is the TENTH year of the decade, meaning that the new decade doesn't begin until Year 11. That means that 2010 is the TENTH year of the FIRST decade of the 2000's. The second decade will not begin until 2011. Arthur C. Clarke knew the truth, and that is why he named his book 2001 A Space Odyssey, not 2000 A Space Odyssey
And you program with one-based indexes instead of zero-based? :laugh: No offence but your logic fails on two levels: 1. If you are right, 1 is the first digit, 2 is the second digit... 9 is the nine digit, so we use 9-based numeric system. So what the hell is that oval-looking thing after the 1 in number 10? 2. Our calendar is Jesus Christ born based. If he was born in year 0, by your logic, he doesn't start the new era, he was born in old era, he spend a whole year of his life to setup a new era. :laugh: Whatever you people will say, we love rounded-numbers! :)
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Which of course makes no sense at all BC = Before Christ, AD = After Death (i.e. Christs Death) so there must have been some 30years+ in there, which just goes to show that our calender is meaningless, it's just some easy way for us all to create a time to talk in Outlook.... So there you have it, I blame it on Microsoft.... :) (should I actually have said "time is meaningless, lunch time doubly so...")
Actually, A.D. stands for the Latin phrase, Anno Domini[^] ("In the year of our Lord"), not "After Death".
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Actually, A.D. stands for the Latin phrase, Anno Domini[^] ("In the year of our Lord"), not "After Death".
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So you welcomed in the new Millenium on New Years Eve 2000/2001? that would've been a year later than everyone else did it. Most people don't care what is correct, they just care about what makes sense to them.
you know all these arguments are so funny, they remind me of the fights that you always have in the Asterix comics where you see Aterix and Getafix on the side watching all the villagers bashing themselves over the head. I'm not even going to put in my opinion, just reading this discussion almost made my head spin
