#4502094 - 12/31/19 02:47 PM
Re: Australia leads the way...
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What is this witchcraft? People from the future are invading this forum!!!
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#4502317 - 01/02/20 01:05 AM
Re: Australia leads the way...
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Do we begin counting at zero, or at one?
I'd say we begin at zero, since otherwise, it would be 1980 and we'd still be living in the 1970s for a year?
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#4502322 - 01/02/20 01:46 AM
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Seriously, when you count to ten do you start at zero and stop at nine? Really, how is this even a question? The concept of zero did not even exist when the first counting systems came to be.
EDIT: Even with modern computers, the zero is a null element.
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#4502323 - 01/02/20 01:53 AM
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2020 is OK nothing seems to have changed. Looks pretty much the same as 2019 around here, too.
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#4502374 - 01/02/20 01:38 PM
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The new decade starts in 2021: when doing the count for our new era , there is no year 0 : +1 AD follows immediately -1 BC ...so the first decade is years 1 to 10 , the 2nd from 11 to 20 and so on ...
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#4502375 - 01/02/20 01:56 PM
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No one recognized year 1 at the time, it was assigned year 1 status retroactively.
A decade by definition is ten years, any ten consecutive years. We can start and end them whenever we wish. 2005-2014 was a decade.
The 1920's (1920-1929) was the decade of the 1920's. 1921-1930 was also a decade in length, but it would not be accurate to call that the "twenties" as that leaves out 1920 but includes 1930.
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#4502392 - 01/02/20 04:33 PM
Re: Australia leads the way...
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The designation "AD" stands for "Anno Domini" or "in the year of our Lord". So it's actually AD1, not 1AD. It's stuff like this why I love SimHQ.
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