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Don Pearce wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:32:09 +0000 (UTC), Ralph Barone
wrote:
Don Pearce wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:19:05 +0000 (UTC), Ralph Barone
wrote:
Don Pearce wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 08:34:32 -0800, Tobiah wrote:
On 1/17/20 1:38 AM, Don Pearce wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 09:10:38 GMT, (Don Pearce) wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:28:05 -0800, Tobiah wrote:
So what was the first year of the first decade in our current CE
reckoning? No need to bring mythical figures into it - straight
question.
The first year was year 1, making the first decade span the years
1 through 10, the second decade starting at year 11. Or is there
a trick to your question?
No trick. You make my point perfectly. Decades start on the year that
ends in a 1, not a 0.
So when I was 10 years old, I had not lived a decade, because
"Decades start on the year that ends in a 1" whereas
my first decade started with a year that ended in 6.
I'm just saying that when someone refers to the 50's say, it's
as arbitrary as saying "the evens". It's a description that
we can use to group some of the past years together so we can
easily agree on which ones we're talking about.
I blame the schools lousy maths skills. When you were ten years old
you had lived a decade. Just you were one year old you had lived a
year.
d
And that is what happens when you post before you are awake. Let me
try again...
I blame the schools for lousy maths skills. When you were ten years
old you had lived a decade, just as when you were one year old you had
lived a year.
You are reiterating my point. I may have failed to convey the irony in my
earlier reply. The first decade of our current calendar may have ended on
the first day of year 11, but a decade per se has an arbitrary start point.
I'd even venture to say that it need not begin at the start of a calendar
year.
One popular dictionary's entry:
1) a period of ten years: the three decades from 1776 to 1806.
2) a period of ten years beginning with a year whose last digit is zero:
the decade of the 1980s.
3) a group, set, or series of ten.
Of course, decade is a word with many usages - those are just some of
them. But in the context we were discussing we know which it was: A
defined period of ten years beginning with a year that terminates with
a one. The first decade is the years 1 to 10 - continue counting from
there. And at no point do you get to slip in a nine year decade.
d
Considering how mankind has royally f$#*ed up calendars over the ages,
including the estimation of when Jesus was born, I donât see why we
couldnât slip a 9 year decade in there somewhere. After all, September,
October, November and December arenât the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months
anymore.
Jesus? Well if you are going to try to use the fictional birth of a
mythological being, then yes, all bets are off.
d
OK, so we all agree that the transition from BC to AD was so bolloxed up
that starting decades on the zero is just fine now.
However ********ed up it may have been, we still recognise it as
starting at one, so no.
d
For certain values of we, sure...
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