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[quote]I didn't say anything much about AD except to say that the the year zero didn't actually happen and that decades end in the number 10 not 9, if you would only learn to read Dr Slater.[/quote]

Lol. The year zero didn't happen because of how Anno Domini was put together. Whether you realised it or not you were talking about AD.

You also admitted in our debate already that a decade can start anywhere, so doesn't have to end on a 10. At least you admitted you were wrong on that count.

Anyway, I'll say no more before you lose interest again....lol.

[quote]I did say that a decade can start anywhere, but you took my remark out of context because of what I said next.[/quote]

I said you admitted it (after I'd pointed it out).

[quote]A decade such as the 90s or the 00s starts at a specific point which is at the end of the tenth year of the previous decade.[/quote]

Wrong. The 90s starts at 1990 because there are two ways of referring to a century: there's the archaic AD way which you and Steve adhere to which means a century covering, for example: x001-x000 and there's the more logical, modern and official way which is naming centuries 1700s, 1800s, etc where the century covers x000-x999. I'm sure I've covered this already.

From : "The period from 1900 to 1999, almost synonymous with the 20th century (1901?2000)
The period from 1900 to 1909, known as the 1900s decade"

[quote]The year zero didn't happen, the starting point was 1,[/quote]

Correction: The year zero didn't happen according to Dionysius. He couldn't have known what a zero was at that time. ISO8601 standard corrects this.

[quote]1999 was 9 and 2000 was 10, easy to understand.[/quote]

I agree! It is just as easy to understand how starting at 0 the tenth year is 9. Well, it's easy to understand if your brain is malleable enough to comprehend a different way of counting (and lets be honest, it's not that different!).

[quote]At no time did 9 ever mean the 10th of anything, no way.[/quote]

I feel sorry for the kids that were born in the year 1999 then. They obviously missed their tenth birthdays. And let's remember Max's first post where he obviously meant the stroke of midnight, 01/01/2010 as the tenth anniversary of the millennium. He didn't mention 1999 to be fair.

Ok, Keith. L o L