Comments on: What Will the New Year Bring? http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2010/01/what-will-the-new-year-bring.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:59:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lawrence Cunningham http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2010/01/what-will-the-new-year-bring.html/comment-page-1#comment-66925 Lawrence Cunningham Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:36:50 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=23723#comment-66925 Gerald, Alternatively, a standard definition of decade is a period of ten years, without regard to when the ten-year period begins or ends, so the decade just ended last week is the the one that began in 2000. LC Gerald,

Alternatively, a standard definition of decade is a period of ten years, without regard to when the ten-year period begins or ends, so the decade just ended last week is the the one that began in 2000.

LC

]]> By: Gerald R. Lampton http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2010/01/what-will-the-new-year-bring.html/comment-page-1#comment-66921 Gerald R. Lampton Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:35:14 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=23723#comment-66921 One thing that is worth pointing out is that the decade is not actually over yet. Just as 2000 was the last year of the 20th Century and not the first year of the 21st, so 2010 is the last year of the decade now concluding, not the first year of the next. The reason is simple: one starts counting with "1" not "0." One thing that is worth pointing out is that the decade is not actually over yet. Just as 2000 was the last year of the 20th Century and not the first year of the 21st, so 2010 is the last year of the decade now concluding, not the first year of the next. The reason is simple: one starts counting with “1″ not “0.”

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