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Tag: decade argument

Posted inNews

What year is it, anyway?

by Reporter Newspaper Staff January 28, 2010February 5, 2010

To the editor:
Does a century end with the year ‘99 and the next one begin then with the year ‘00? Or is the last year of the century ‘00 and the next year, in the new century, ‘01? (Editor’s Notes, Jan. 15-28.)
The answer is really not that difficult.
To start with, let’s put labels with

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