Identical Fla. Twins Born In 2 Separate Decades (Neat)

cbsnews.com ^ | Saturday , January 02, 2010

[rawhide]

As a twin, I say this is neat. They not only get to celebrate on different days, but different years. One twin will always seem to be 1-yr younger, because of the year he was born.

Added from another news source:

The first is Marcello, who was delivered at 11:59 p.m. Dec. 31. The second is Stephano, who arrives just after the stroke of midnight. It's Jan. 1, 2010. Marcello is 2 pounds, 4 ounces and 15 1/2 inches long. Stephano is 2 pounds, 4 ounces and 15 inches long.

[paguch]

Neat that they are twins, but this decade will end December 31, 2010. There are ten years in a decade and we just completed the ninth.

[TN4Liberty]

Actually that doesn’t work for decades. The 20s were 192X, not 1930. If you were to say this is the 200th decade, you might have a point. But ti doesn’t work like centuries, mainly because we are referring to the date when we say “the sixties” and not “counting” them.

[rawhide]

I see your point, but there is many who argue over this point. The neat thing is that they were born in different years.

[Squantos]

2000 to 2009 ?

[Young Werther]

Not only were they born in different millenia but their weight was just shy of a tonne and their lengths were within a half mile of a light year.

As a certified tax preparer, I no that the family will only be able to claim one of them for the 2009 tax year BUT they will be able to claim the whole dependent tax credit of 750 Gazillion dollars give or take a penny!

...but what do I know. I'm not the Count!

[rawhide]

Just curious as to which decade you would assign January 2nd, 2000 to?

[the long march]

Exvept pf cpurse they weren’t since 10 is still part of the decade

[Perdogg]

The decade will not end until Dec 31st 2010.

[Perdogg]

You must have 10 years in a decade and there is no year zero. For example, The last year of the 70s was 1980, because we cannot have 197010. Mark Davis got it all wrong.

[rawhide]

Just curious as to which decade you would assign January 2nd, 2000 to?

[Perdogg]

The year 2000 was the last year of the twentieth century therefore the last years of the 90s. Again you do not have year zero and you cannot have 199010.

[rawhide]

Why can’t Jan 1st, 2000 be the first day of a new decade?

[Vaquero]

Marcello was delivered just before midnight. His twin, Stephano, was delivered just as the new year began.

both are anchor babies...Resident zer0 declares them citizens...

[Perdogg]

because there was no year 0.

[Canedawg]

Call it what you want, but for the next TEN years, the date will end with 201_, beginning yesterday, and THAT’s a fact.

[Disciplinemisanthropy]

It’s surprising how many people I have to explain that to.

[rawhide]

Wouldn’t Dec 31st, 0000 be considered the last day of the first year?

[Perdogg]

It would have been if there had been a year 0, but there was no year 0.

[rawhide]

So what decade do you put day 12-31-00 into? It has to be considered the last day of the first year of the first decade of the first century. (Do not confuse my argument with the years BC and the years AD). I am making the arguemnt as if the beginning of time began on 1-1-00.