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To: paguch

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.


3 posted on 01/02/2010 4:12:31 AM PST by TN4Liberty (My tagline disappeared so this is my new one.)
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To: TN4Liberty

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.


10 posted on 01/02/2010 4:48:22 AM PST by Perdogg ("Is that a bomb in your pants, or you excited to come to America?")
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To: TN4Liberty
Actually that doesn’t work for decades. The 20s were 192X, not 1930.

Actually, it does work that way.

A decade is defined as a 10 year period.

According to your incorrect interpretation, the first decade of this, the 21st Century, would only be 9 years.

That's only 90% of a decade, can't be.

28 posted on 01/02/2010 6:08:16 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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