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From 0 to 1 you'd have to count 0.1, 0.2...till you get to 0.9, which is still in the realm of zero and not 1.

Even the clock we have 2300 hours then 000 hours; it doesn't jump from 2300 to 0100 hours.

So yes 2020 is a new decade.

If in the past rhwy jumped from 1 BC to 1 AD then we're actually one year ahead and this should be 2019 and not 2020.

No, it's not. 2021 is actually the start of a new decade. I don't know why it's so hard to understand.

tedimola:
The answer to your question is this. When a baby is born, does existence start from birth (0) or when the baby is 1 year old There's your answer.

It depends. In the Western world which we copy, we start counting age of the baby after birth but in some countries in Asia, let's say Korea to be precise, the age of a child is counted from the day of conception so the day a child is born, he or she is already one year old.

We all know a decade is a period of ten years but if we follow calendar that has already been set, a new decade starts from 0 and ends with 9, so 2020 is the beginning of a decade.

tedimola:
The answer to your question is this. When a baby is born, does existence start from birth (0) or when the baby is 1 year old There's your answer.

Knowledge speaking

2020 is the start of a new decade

Just in case you're still wondering How Buhari became president.

Next they will ask if the day actually begins at 12 midnight.

Year 2000 (for those who schooled before this indomie generation) was the start of a new millennium (we didn't ask then if if was the start of a millennium or we are to wait for a whole year before we start counting, we were not that dense)

That same Year 2000 was also the start of a new decade that ended in 2009 (millenials, please when counting the years from 2000-2009, include 2000 so you can finally see that its actually 10 years)

The next decade began in 2010 and ended yesterday.

A new one just began!

I never thought the day would come when we'd have to explain this to educated adults, but here we are.

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND A HAPPY NEW DECADE, PEOPLE

internationalman:
we start counting from 1 to 10. and from 1 to 10 has ten numbers


so it should be 2021 to 2030

Mr man in the Arabic numbers we start counting from 0 to 9. If you ignore the 0 and start counting from 1 ,you go wrong in a lot of places. Just like the day begins from 0 am, number counting begins from 0 not 1.

00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09

10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 19

20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

As you can see from the above illustration, 10 and 20 is the equivalent of 00. Meaning it should be the first of the numbers and not the last. So a decade is not 2021 - 2030, instead it is 2020 - 2029.

In counting date,you say 1900's, so that explains y you should see 2020 as a new decade,those of us that did statistics determining sample size should know u have to include the number u are counting from,that is 2010 to 2019 is ten digits,so 2020 is a new decade

New decade starts in 2021 just lile new millennium actually started in 2001 but there's no reason not to celebrate twice.
My analysis is based on the fact that 1900 is part of the 19th century and 1901 is the start of 20th century.

I disagree with what many people are saying. Let's take how we determine the century or the millennium for instance. From 1900 to 1999 is generally considered to be .... (complete the sentence). There you have the correct answer, if you know, you don't talk much.

millionboi2:
Yes ...2010-2020 is decade in British language

In that case, 2020 is not the beginning of a new decade but the end of a decade.

I don't give a fvck about what Andrew Novick thinks

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oviexcels:
Counting starts from 0-9, 10-19, 20-29
Basic arithmetic Hundredth tens and unit

OP learn this basic counting...simple n short....2020 starts a new decade

January 01 1AD to Dec 31 10AD was the first decade January 01 11AD to Dec 31 20AD second decade
January 01, 1991 to Dec 31 2000 penultimate decade
January 01 2001 to Dec 31 2010 last decade

January 01 2011 to Dec 31 2020 current decade

The current decade will expire on the 31st of December 2020
Cheers!

internationalman:
we start counting from 1 to 10. and from 1 to 10 has ten numbers


so it should be 2021 to 2030

so you mean the year 2020,dont exist.?

this is different from the normal figures we count, cause zero actually counts here,

e. g.... we in 2020 currently,and we gonna live it for 365days,so it counts,its different from mathematics

The counting is discrete. So if you count from 2010 to 2019, that’s 10 years and it’s equivalent to a decade! No argument please!

Happy New Year!!

Did we enter the new millennium in 2000 or 2001?the answer to the question would answer this same one

klever18:
WTF?how can 2020 be a new decade, a decade is ten years which fucking mean that from 2005 to 2015 is also a new decade

start your counting from 2010 and tell me it's not

Yeah. It actually makes sense cause I believe counting starts from zero even though we don't realise it.

Over to those that knows about Dates

tedimola:
The answer to your question is this. When a baby is born, does existence start from birth (0) or when the baby is 1 year old There's your answer.

lol, lemme educate you,

answer these first, the new year 2020 we are in right now, does the 0 behind the last 20 count or not

I think we need to separate counting of ordinary number and talking about period of time from the correct counting of years into decades, centuries and millenia.

It is true that there are different calendar systems. But should we start counting from 0 or 1?

When we moved counting of years from BCE/BC to CE/AD there was no zero year in between. If we started from one, then 1 to 10 is 1 decade, 1 to 100 is 1 century and 1 to 1000 is 1 millennium. These should translate to the first decade, century and millenium respectively.

This is different from the counting of numbers because numbers have no value until we attach something to them. In fact the number zero has no value unless it is mixed with other numbers.

When talking about period of time,we make no relevance to decade, century or millenium. For example, saying in the '90s or '80s or '60s doesn't mean we are actually talking about a decade. Someone might understand the '90s to mean '91 to '99 and another might mean it is '91 to '00. It's a relative thing just like saying a decade could mean any period of 10 years.

But considering that there was no zero year in the switch from BCE to CE the first decade will be counted from year 1 to year 10, the first century will be counted from year 1 to year 100 and the first millenium from year 1 to year 1000.

All i know is that 10years= a decade 100years= a century 1000years= a millennium U have answer!

Cyclically, The Year Begins In September And Ends In August!!

bart10:
The counting is discrete. So if you count from 2010 to 2019, that’s 10 years and it’s equivalent to a decade! No argument please!

Happy New Year!!

Yeah right. Very right. Since 0 is always the first number(the state of null) the nth number is found by the calculation: last=n-1.

BrutusOj:
See question oo. Is a decade no longer 10years?

that's not the issue. Where do we start the counting? Year 00 doesn't exist , why are we using 0-9 format instead of 1-10

I'm in the middle. A decade is simply 10 years, and it depends on where you start counting. Same with a year. It's why the new year craze seems foolish to me.

nerd51:
No, it's not. 2021 is actually the start of a new decade. I don't know why it's so hard to understand.

Nah..
if a baby Is born we start counting from secs, minutes, hours, months before the baby gets to a year.......

2020 is the beginning of a decade ..

.we are already 2020 years, 12 hours 18 minutes and some seconds up. .. of existence