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Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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> <nitpick mode on>
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> The Year 2000 is the last year of the '90s (not 90's.) There was no year 0000
> The first year was 0001. So 0001 to 0010 is the first decade A.D. Logically
> the last decade of the 20th century is 1991 to 2000. Just out of curiosity, do
> you count ten things 0 to 9 or 1 to 10?
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> <nitpick mode off>
(nitpick mode on again.... :)
Yes, there was no year 0.
Yes, the 21st century does not begin until January 1, 2001.
Howeever....
Where in the world did you get the idea that 2000 would be *ANY* part of
the nineties?
The nineties (which is just a shorthand notation for, most recently,
nineteen nineties) went from 1990 to 1991. The 10 year period is
abviously so named because of the names of the numbers in it. It has
no relevance to being in synchronization with the year count since 1 BC.
2000 doesn't have nineteen ninety anything as a part of it, last time I
checked.
(okay... I'm done.)
> > Mark
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| (...) Agreed...the '90s are considered to be dates between '90 and '99, not necessarily the 199th decade A.D. (which goes from '91 to '00). Paul Davidson (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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