Top 5 pound-for-pound per decade

You should refer to your 'year 1' as 'the first year' - it's more adequate. By saying 'year 1' you make it sound as though time started at the point 'one' - it did not, and I think you are realizing this now.

In the most basic definition I can give; year numbers signify the end of something, rather than the start. 'One' represents the end of the first year, 'two' represents the end of the second and so on - 'two' is not the start of the second year, but the third. The third year will tick away and eventually hit the 'three' mark, where the fourth year will begin.

Time didn't start at 0AD, our world as we know it is much older than that, but I have been using it as a simpler checkpoint in which to measure from. Time starts at the zero point, and when it reaches 'one', one year has passed. at 1AD, one year had passed already, since there was a time gap between 0AD and the former.

Again, look at a stopwatch. It doesn't immediately display '1:00:00', it starts at 0:00:00 and there is a gap of one second, the first second, before it reaches 1:00:00.

 

Man, damn.

A stop watch starts at zero. Say your stop watch starts at zero at the beginning of the first year. At the end of that year you will be at the end of year one. At the end of year one you will have the beginning of year 2. One year has gone by, but we are now starting the 2nd year. At the end of year 2, you begin year 3. At the end of year 3, you begin year 4. At the end of year 4, you begin year 5. At the end of year 5, 5 years have passed.

At the end of year 10, 10 years will have passed. One decade. Another decade will not have passed until year 20. Meaning it will take years 11-20 to make a decade. 21-30 will make another. So on, and so forth.

Nice list Old Fogey. I don't agree with every spot, but I don't have time to argue. You are mostly right.

 

Rekcutnevets knows what he's talking about, listen to him.

 

I got to cut this, but time is actually simply a designation for the intervals marked by the turning of the Earth, the rotation of the Earth around the Sun, etc
The situation is like if I'm in a position to do it, as the Pope was in the 6th century, I decide to date from the founding of the Declaration of Independence and call 1776 year 1. Okay. All the talk about stopwatches or trackmeets means nothing. 1776 is year 1, 1777 year 2, etc.
And that is what happened. I think the Pope known as Gregory the Great changed the calendar to Jesus' birth year, but got the year wrong.
Now I'm going to stop before I am banned by Cross Trainer.

 

OLD FOGEY, I think you've gotten your wires crossed somewhere along the way because you're almost telling yourself what's right and not actually disagreeing with me.

 

I look exactly like him, minus the ring. My beard is fake, however, since I am not old enough to grow even a blonde caterpillar, let alone a bushy grey paradise.

 

I agree with him. The year 10 marks 10 years, as the year 100 marks 100 years. So, the year 101 is the start of the second century.

You have said "time starts here" or something like that. Time is infinite and what we measure is our perception of the motions of the universe and their repetitions. Years and such is our imposition on time.

 

Not to change the subject after the fascinating discussion on dating (yawn) which I share the blame for, but aren't you badly underrating Tommy Ryan. Ryan fought from 1887 to 1907. He lost only three fights, one on a foul to George Green, and twice to the great Kid McCoy. He avenged the loss to Green by knockout in his next fight. He was welterweight champion from 1894 to 1898 and middleweight champion from 1898 to 1907. He was never beaten for either title.
Only McCoy stopped him in 109 fights, in a 15 round knockout, Ryan's only bad defeat.
With a record like that, I think he should rate much higher than #10 for his decade.

 

I see your point, but the nine above him were damn fine fighters themselves, maybe there is scope to give him a place on the 1891-1900 list.

 

You do not seem to understand the Gregorian calender, read up on it and you can put this debate to rest.

 

You are bringing this up again--so, no, I don't know that at all. The year 1800 is by definition the last year of the 18th century--18 x 100. That is what 1800 means mathematically. 1801 means you have completed 18 x 100 and are now adding the 1st year of the 19th century,
This is perhaps an esoteric point, but I think you gentlemen are much younger than I am, so I will give you a word of advice. Know what you know in this world and what you don't know. There is nothing particularly wrong with being ignorant on certain matters. We all are. I would say I'm ignorant on about 99% of topics that might come up. There is something wrong with being stubborn when your error is pointed out.

The fact is the count on the Gregorian calendar starts at the year 1, not at some year zero, and the year 100 completes the first century.

One fact that probably confuses young people is that the turn of the millenium was celebrated in 2000, but that was really an ignorant error and was so pointed out by quite a number of people, mainly teachers, but who listens to teachers these days. It is a good lesson, though.
There is an old saying that fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong, but this in fact proves that the whole world can be wrong.

I remember talking to Arthur C Clark in 1968, the year the movie "2001, A Space Odyssey" came out. He wrote the original story on which the movie was based and was traveling around promoting the movie. If I remember, the original story was called "Starchild" but my memory might be failing me. I asked why the title "2001" was chosen and Clark told me it was because it would be the 1st year of the new millenium.

 

OLD FOGEY, you are either wrong or confusing yourself and I'd bet my life that Sweet Pea and I are right. I can't even work out whether you agree with us because your wording suggests different things.

 

I believe Old Fogey is correct. Year zero does not exist in the Gregorian Calender. Therefore 1800 is technically the last year of the 18th century, as is 2000 was the last year of the 20th Century. We should have celebrated the start of the new millenium at Midnight on Jan 1st 2001.

http://www.spark-online.com/november00/trends/marcom.html

 

I think OLD FOGEY is correct.

1800 is a whole year, and it is the last year of the 18th Century.
Jan 1st 1801 is the beginning of the 19th Century.