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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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01-06-2010, 09:12 AM | #61 | |
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How many birthdays do people have on average? Trick question. Just one. Technically the rest are anniversaries of your birthday.
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01-06-2010, 09:44 AM | #62 |
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Actually, the 19th century ended on December 31, 1900 at midnight.
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01-06-2010, 09:47 AM | #63 | |
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01-06-2010, 09:56 AM | #64 |
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This is all very like the origin 1/origin 0 conversation that we have everytime we try to figure out how old Forks is.
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01-06-2010, 10:09 AM | #65 |
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How hard is it to count? Apparently it's fairly hard.
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01-06-2010, 10:10 AM | #66 |
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You have no idea.
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01-06-2010, 10:35 AM | #67 | |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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01-06-2010, 11:19 AM | #68 |
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Counting all of the decades confused me and since Happy Monkey is the most logical poster I can see I knew if you ( HM) said it was this and not that ,it probably was so, so I counted again and you are right.
It is the beginning of your 10th year not 9th year. But the centuries and decades are adjusted for leap years and leap seconds to keep up with the way the planet(s) are rotating? |
01-06-2010, 11:45 AM | #69 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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Years are of varying lengths, in order to keep the average length as close as possible to an astronomical year. Centuries and decades are defined by years, not days or seconds, so they don't really need to be adjusted, as such, as long as you don't expect them to be the same number of seconds long.It's similar to the fact that a baby turning six months old will not necessarily be twice as many days old as one turning three months old, but they are twice as many months old.
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01-07-2010, 12:37 AM | #70 |
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Jim's count is off by one year. Owing to there not having been a Year Zero (imagine what the calendars would have looked like) for the BC-AD calculations were done in Roman numerals and hence no notation for zero in the first place (even worse for the calendars), the -10 years are the final years of a given decade, the -1 following years the first of the next. Been that way at least since Jesus was a toddler, what with that 4BC-1AD calculation slop (an arithmetical error in the calculation).
Yes, Skysidhe. Planet, singular; Mama Earth. It was either make Earth's rotation the standard, or the timekeeping of a cesium clock, which is precise enough to develop a measurable discrepancy with an earthly wibblewobble. Unfortunately, that would just produce a smaller-scale edition of the kind of discrepancy that got the Julian calendar dumped for the Gregorian over various parts of the globe in various times from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. They had to do a two-week leap, or even more. So to keep our clocks lined up with the stars, the sun (4 min difference per day, but it recycles) and the world, we have the world and its occasional jiggles as the standard, and reset the cesium clocks to that.
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