Its a title with a heavy weight I have to bear. But 'tis a title I am proud of.TooMiserableToLive said:
Now, excuse me. I have to go piss on babies.
why do people not know the correct end of the decade?
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Now, excuse me. I have to go piss on babies.
The base-ten number system has the numbers 0 through 9, when you go one past 9, you start over, going back to the numeral 0 on the next iteration, i.e. "10".cleverlymadeup said:
Also, a "math student" and a "person studying math" are kinda the same thing. And you are clearly not either.
So, yeah.
Cept' the Gregorian calendar began ~1500 years after "Year 1" and decades are based off of the decimal system because it's something everyone can relate to, rather than an arbitrary point of reference. Furthermore, there was no Year 0 CE, but there were years before that and you can just as easily consider 1 BCE as 0 CE for practical purposes.cleverlymadeup said:
Just understand that decades are completely arbitrary and there's no point in starting them anywhere but according to the decimal system since that's the most prolific.
This basically.MoganFreeman said:
A "base x" system is determined by the number of symbols used before you move up a column. In the base 10 (or decimal) system, it is 0 - 9. Once you reach 10, the units column resets and the tens column increases by one.
For binary, we have 0 & 1. We start at 0, moves up to one, then the units column resets and the twos column goes up by one.
For hexadecimal, 0 - 9, followed by A - F. Octal has 0 - 7. Quinary has 0 - 4. And so on and so forth.
We humans may start counting from the number 1 in any number system, but that is not where the number system starts.
I seriously hope you don't act like this in real life, if that's the case then I'm almost certain you don't have any real friends. I'm also inclined to think that you probably just looked this up on Wikipedia 7 minutes ago and somehow believe it makes you smarter. Don't confuse knowledge with intelligence.Laur Farren said:
there was no year 0 in either the CE or AD counting, the year before 1 CE and 1 AD was 1 BCE and 1 BC respectively.The Unspool said:
also logically would you call the first year in your system year 0? no you'd call it year 1
My apologise, BUT...The Unspool said:
I never use wiki, even though most of it is marginally accurate, so people like you can't use it as a tool of offense, I prefer to use things I learned at school, or talking to intelligent people, but I guess you're right, I shouldn't mistake knowledge for intelligence,
that would be like mistaking wisdom for ntelligence, You for example, are very intelligent, but quite unwise, by launching a personal attack on a stranger (see highlighted) You give them a smug sense of superiority at knowing that you are a self assured prat who knows not of wich they speak.
I've enjoyed our discussion but I have better things to do than argue with someone who's major weapons are all assured, I hope to see you later, you are quite talented.
What? EVERY number system starts at 0.
Binary: 0-1
Octal: 0-7
Decimal: 0-9
Hexadecimal: 0-F
... just to name a few
That's how the number '10' works in the first place. The "1" signifies the next iteration of 0-9. It's actually a bad thing that people think we count in 1-10. Makes math a lot harder to do.
Binary: 0-1
Octal: 0-7
Decimal: 0-9
Hexadecimal: 0-F
... just to name a few
That's how the number '10' works in the first place. The "1" signifies the next iteration of 0-9. It's actually a bad thing that people think we count in 1-10. Makes math a lot harder to do.
Damn, I hope nobody brings up points like this anywhere else but The Escapist. Just imagine a party going on, people having a good time, you see a nice looking girl/guy, walk up to him/her...
"And what's the deal with how we count our decades? I HATE when people think it doesn't end the year after! Drives me NUTS!"
I'll tell you what the deal would be. A deal-breaker. badumtish.
"And what's the deal with how we count our decades? I HATE when people think it doesn't end the year after! Drives me NUTS!"
I'll tell you what the deal would be. A deal-breaker. badumtish.
They don't because it intuitively makes much less sense the right way, and they don't bother to investigate because the conclusion they've reached makes much more sense.
Hey guys. This one time I posted in this troll thread. It was good times. I then proceeded to follow the thread hoping that they'd see reason, when in fact you can't convince anyone of anything online because you can't hit them.
That having been said, I'm going to derail this thread with an equally pointless debate that has a set answer. Will a helicopter take off on a turntable?
See what I did there? I'm contributing!
On-topic, I'm going to feed the troll some more by pointing out that the occam's razor of the situation is we say [10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90] are our starting points for years because we decided to ignore [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] simply because there weren't ten of them, and it made no sense to start a system of measurement at 1. OH SNAP A SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT?! WAT WAT!? Ladies and gentlemen, I leave you with: Lawl.
That having been said, I'm going to derail this thread with an equally pointless debate that has a set answer. Will a helicopter take off on a turntable?
See what I did there? I'm contributing!
On-topic, I'm going to feed the troll some more by pointing out that the occam's razor of the situation is we say [10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90] are our starting points for years because we decided to ignore [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] simply because there weren't ten of them, and it made no sense to start a system of measurement at 1. OH SNAP A SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT?! WAT WAT!? Ladies and gentlemen, I leave you with: Lawl.
