There were the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's & 90'

[skace]

Joking aside. If 30'06 is pronounced 30 aught six, then what exactly does the ' stand for within the number 3006. Is it an extra zero? An extra 20?

 

[TGS]

I had a big tax return in the summer of Aught 3.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: skace
Joking aside. If 30'06 is pronounced 30 aught six, then what exactly does the ' stand for within the number 3006. Is it an extra zero? An extra 20?

What 30-06 (the correct way of typing it out) means is that it is a .308" calibre round developed in 1906. The Aught 6 is a way of distinguishing it from other .308" calibre rounds.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
Proof 😛 You can't use the repost card without a link.

Cheers,
Aquaman

Welcome to 10 years ago, Aquaman. People have been talking about this subject since the late 1990s (well, also the 1890s, 1790s, 1690s, etc). While the search at Anandtech sucks, you can still find dozens of threads like this by searching.

 

[DainBramaged]

That Which Never Should Have Been?

 

[zanieladie]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
That Which Never Should Have Been?

Why not?

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman
I figure reporters will skate around it, referring to it as "this decade" or "since 2000". Once we hit the 10s, they'll refer to it as "last decade."

By the time we make it to the 20s, no one will care about the ten years between 2000 and 2009...

seriously nothing really happened anyway

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: PowerMacG5
What 30-06 (the correct way of typing it out) means is that it is a .308" calibre round developed in 1906. The Aught 6 is a way of distinguishing it from other .308" calibre rounds.

Thanks 🙂

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: Googer
Aught is redneck speak for the letter O (OH or OHT). 30-06 should sound like: thirty oh six but rednex say it thirdy oht sex.

Congratulations again on another pearl of wisdom, basement boy.

Please leave the thinking to others better equipped to handle such.

QFT. STFU, Googer.

 

[Injury]

The 2000's, the new millenium, this decade, since 2000, MM?

 

[Born2bwire]

Aughts or naughts. One of the guys in the lab took a math course taught by a British professor and would refer to zero exclusively as naught. So the term may be more prevalent outside North America (with the exception of refering to subscript zeros). While I think (n)aughts would be the correct way to refer to the current decade, I do not think it is really going to permeate through society at large. It seems somewhat ackward to say.

 

[Glavinsolo]

The O's, then 10s 20s etc
We will refer back to 1900-1999 as the 1900s

 

[StevenYoo]

i say the 2000's or the naughts

 

[imported_Trippin315]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
What the heck do we call the decade we are in now? :Q 😕

Cheers,
Aquaman

The time of ill repute.