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View Poll Results: Is 2010 the first, or last, year of a decade
It's the first year of a whole new decade. 12 54.55%
Your brilliant logic tells me it's the last year of the decade. 9 40.91%
Don't you dare argue with your mother, I carried you for 9 months, uphill both ways... 1 4.55%
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Old 01-04-2010, 03:25 PM   #14
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But if you want "the 20th century" to mean the same thing as "the 1900s", then "the first century" would only be 99 years long.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I can live with that. The first century isn't well documented anyway. A little fudging there will be just fine.
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