01-05-2020, 12:49 PM | #5161 |
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Yet everyone but me is willing to expend the mental effort to figure out century numbering when it would be so much easier to lop off the last two digits.
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01-05-2020, 12:54 PM | #5162 |
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I agree about the millennium, but not about the decade. A decade can start whenever you like. The common usage is to group years by their starting digits, in which case the 2020s run from now to the end of 2029.
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01-05-2020, 01:02 PM | #5163 |
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I agree that a decade is any 10 year interval and see no reason that would be any different for centuries and millennia.
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01-05-2020, 02:44 PM | #5164 | |
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What we seem to be arguing is if we want to count the years ordinally (21-30) or cardinally 20-29. I don't like cardinally since the fence post for that would result in a "decade" containing 9 years (0001-0009) since the Anno Domini system started at year 1 not year 0. I realize that leaves me in a minority but been there before and will likely be there again. Hmmm... They'd Rather Be Right. Second winner of a Hugo for a novel. |
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01-05-2020, 07:24 PM | #5165 | |
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XKCD said it best: https://xkcd.com/2249/ |
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From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decade Definition of decade Quote:
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/...merican/decade Quote:
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01-05-2020, 10:50 PM | #5170 |
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Perhaps a good old fashioned Roman style decimation would be helpful?
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01-05-2020, 11:20 PM | #5171 |
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1BC-9AD is a decade
1BC-99AD is a century 1BC-999AD is a millennia Remember time started before AD, if you’re grouping years in 10s, 100s, and 1,000s you don’t start from the middle you go all the way back to the start of existence and count in groups to where we are now. Last edited by MGlitch; 01-05-2020 at 11:29 PM. |
01-06-2020, 01:21 AM | #5172 |
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Do I need to move this to P&R?
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01-06-2020, 01:23 AM | #5173 |
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But let me jump in myself anyway.
The two hundred and second decade of the Common Era doesn't start until 1st January 2021 The 2020s started on 1st January 2020. |
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That said, this whole debate is really best summed up by another xkcd classic, imo: https://xkcd.com/386/ |
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