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In article <RODNEY.89D...@picasso.ipl.rpi.edu> rod...@picasso.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
$They just talked about this end of the decade thing on Letterman.
$They say that the decade doesn't end until the end of 1990.  So there.
$Finally an authoratative answer.  (too bad he's wrong)

   No, in fact he is quite correct.  The first year A.D. was year one,
so the first decade ran from years one to ten inclusive ... as in
the last year in a decade is a year that ends in zero.  Such as 1990.
We are still in the 199th decade and will be for about 362 days as I
write this.

   Similarly, the century doesn't end when 1999 ends, either.
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