> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chat <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 'Bo Jacoby'
> via Chat
> Sent: donderdag 31 mei 2018 17:56
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jchat] J, APL, or calendars?
> 
> "My decade, like the one of most others, start at 2010". Let's agree that each
> decade (or decennium) is ten years long. The first decennium starts at the
> first year and includes the tenth year. So the  n'th  decennium starts at the
> (1+10*(n-1))th year. The two hundred and second decennium starts at the
> (1+10*(202-1))th year, which is the two thousand and eleventh year, not the
> two thousand and tenth year.

Agreed. 
And what is the name of that two thousand and eleventh year? 2010.
Just as as the eleventh minute after 3 o'clock is denoted by 3:10.

R.E. Bos
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