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It depends whether you count from zero to nine, or one to ten
by motters 17y ago
It depends whether you count from zero to nine, or one to ten
- wheels 17y agoThere was no year zero. Thus, since a presumed January 1st, 1 AD, there have been 200.9 decades. (And for the record, I posted that out of humor, not pedantry.)
- jerf 17y agoThere was no Gregorian year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ..., or 1581, either. There is no contradiction in the calendar starting on a 1 but decades starting on a 0; either way the calendar actually started in the middle of a decade/century/millenium. True pedants should be insisting the decade starts on a 2, and centuries start on 82s!