why do people not know the correct end of the decade?

[NBSRDan]

We aren't counting from the year 1, we're counting from the year 0.

This decade ends at 12:00 AM, January 1st, 2010.

 

[StonkThis]

Ahem...
2000-2001 = 1 year. Still following?
2001-2002 = 2 years. Getting complicated.
2002-2003 = 3 years.
2003-2004 = 4 years.
2004-2005 = 5 years. Almost there.
2005-2006 = 6 years.
2006-2007 = 7 years. Damn we're close.
2007-2008 = 8 years. Excited yet?
2008-2009 = 9 years. Guess what's next?
2009-2010 = 10 years. Yeah. I just rocked your world.

cept one small issue, there was no year 0, for this decade to count from the beginning of our time counting then 2009-2010 would be 9 years into this decade

maybe you should have read the whole thread before trying to be smart and be proven wrong pretty quickly

I'm pretty sure there was a year zero, which was Jan 1st 2000-Jan 1st 2001, which is one year. It starts at 2000, ends at 2010, I'd call that a decade. 10 years... Maybe I'm wrong, just tell me why, you're not very clear, because there was a year 0.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I'd just like to point out the year 2000. How can you say that it wasn't the beginning of the 21st century? How many people across the world celebrated the "new millennium" that year? Are all of them wrong and you right? I think that to most peoples' minds it makes more sense to start something at zero. It's just how the brain works. I do like the argument made about zero AD also.

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cept one small issue, there was no year 0, for this decade to count from the beginning of our time counting then 2009-2010 would be 9 years into this decade
maybe you should have read the whole thread before trying to be smart and be proven wrong pretty quickly

But there was a year zero... It didn't go to 1 BC to 1 AD. Using the logic of math, like you're doing, that would be like going from -1 to 1, it just doesn't work...

actually it DID got 1 BC/BCE and then 1 AD/CE there was no 0 AD/CE. both the Julian and the Gregorian Calendars don't have a year 0 in them. so simply put the year 2000 would not be part of the 21st century

I'm pretty sure there was a year zero, which was Jan 1st 2000-Jan 1st 2001, which is one year. It starts at 2000, ends at 2010, I'd call that a decade. 10 years... Maybe I'm wrong, just tell me why, you're not very clear, because there was a year 0.

nope no year 0, look it up

 

[brunothepig]

Read the rest of the thread, it's been resolved.

cept your logic is flawed and was proven wrong, we did not have a year 0, so the first decade would have been 1 - 10 not 0 - 9. therefore all subsequent decades are counted from 1 - 10 with the new one starting in 11

Well decades aren't maths. Therefore your entire point became meaningless. Right now we're in the 0x decade, and in the new year we will be in the 1x decade. Is that really so hard for you to comprehend? Are you saying the year 0 never existed and doesn't count as a year?

Exactly. 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 Was the first decade of this calendar A.D, then year 10 was the start of decade 2. You see, simple math. It goes on.

cept there was no year 0 AD. so your logic fails

Sorry, didn't know... Why are people, on the whole, illogical and just fairly stupid? Anyway, it's still more convenient to start a decade with ***0. And end.

 

[bomu]

I would like for this to be the last post of this forum, because anything that follows it will be from someone ignorant and too proud of their ignorance to look up the facts.

Fact 1:
The year previous 1AD was 1BC.
Source: thinking independently and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini

Fact 2:
Since the first year was 1, the turnover from 1 to 2 marked 1 year in AD.

This means the turn from 10-11 marked the end of 10 years, or the first decade in AD. The turnover from 100-101 marked the end of the first century. The turnover from 1000-1001 marked the end of the first millennium. Continuing, the second millennium in AD was from 1001-2000.

The person that counted the years from 2000-2009 as a decade proved that they can count to 10 but made the assumption that the year 2000 was the beginning of a new decade in AD.

Fact 3:
Choose the 17th century, this occurred from 1601-1700.
Source: thinking independently and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century

Fact 4:
Majority acceptance is not proof of reality. See religion.