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In terms of the naughties, then 2010 starts a new decade. However, in terms of the 21st century, its second decade does not start until 2011. The tendency of people to define decades as ones with the same second last digit is out of synch with the proper way to count decades, and is one of the things that leads to confusion, like people mistakenly thinking that the 20th century and 2nd millennium ended at the end of 1999, when in fact they both ended at the end of 2000. Only the 1990s ended at the end of 1999. Properly, decades go from 1 to 10, not 0 to 9.

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