The decade is over in less than a day. EnGadget has a great article on the top 10 gadgets of the decade.
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You silly bugger...the first finger you stick up is for 31 December 2000.
You WILL run out of fingers at December 31 2009....exactly where you are supposed to....unless you have extraneous digits.....
....[and keep THAT one in yer pants]....
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
That's ten [10]
BTW....we just left the 20th [twentieth] century....second millennium.....
...and are now hanging out in the second decade of the 21st [third millennium].....
And that Twentieth century was the one I was born in...had a date of '1954' ....
Only if you were born in the 19th century....
Who's on first....? No...Who's on decade. What is it with you people?
Just making an academic point after being encased with relatives over Christmas and the New Year.
Two thirds of respondants here say the decade ends on 31 December 2010
Most people here agree... in fact, the best answer is 2010.
This writer suggests both 'camps' have a case in point
Here the poll says 56% for 2009, 44% for 2010... yet the comments area suggest the opposite.
And the consensus here is 2010.
starkers...counting starts FROM zero....WITH one as the first whole integer. Ten becomes the tenth integer ARRIVED AT, not passed.
I don't think you can rely on 'majority rules' as the majority can often still be wrong.
As already stated...1954 occurs in the Twentieth century, not the Nineteenth....and the same applies with all instances of counting. The year 54 AD similarly occurs within the First century and the year 154 will be within the Second century, etc., ad nauseum....
Lantec is right...I think I almost single-handedly hijacked Brad's thread well and truly....so back on topic....[with tongue firmly in cheek]....The first decade of the third millennium HAS ended, so Brad's thread IS correctly timed....
Like when everyone believed the Earth was flat. Anyway, as far as the dacade thing goes, there are two camps and we obviously aren't in the same one, so we'll agree to disagree.
Not without considerable assistance from me. Sorry Brad.
The decade is over in less than a day. EnGadget has a great article on the top 10 gadgets of the decade.