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To: BDParrish

The new decade begins at 2021; 2020 is the end of this decade.


3 posted on 01/02/2020 7:16:41 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

so you say


4 posted on 01/02/2020 7:21:08 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: SkyDancer
The new decade begins at 2021; 2020 is the end of this decade.

Everything starts with zero, not 1. I understand that they made a mistake in the first century and made year one the first year AD. But all that really means is that the first century only had 99 years. A 2000-year-old mistake doesn’t mean that we can start counting from the number 1.

13 posted on 01/02/2020 7:35:19 AM PST by southern rock
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It depends on if you user ZERO based numbering or not...

As any computer programmer can tell you, zero based numbering you have ten when you process the index of 9.

1 based, you haven’t hit 10, until you get to 10.


39 posted on 01/02/2020 8:30:58 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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