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Nonsense. The term "decade" clearly predates the reckoning of years we have AND the decimal system. It's just what it says, 10 years. So, the first decade of our reckoning is just that, the first ten years, followed by the second and third. If that happens not to fit your decimals, too bad, but just as with centuries and millennia, it doesn't change anything.
Alas, there is something that always beats logic, and that is the (mental) laziness of people…
Highly inaccurate assessment.
Time is measured differently to objects.
If you have 10 objects, then, yes, that dec includes the 10, because objects have no zero.
However, time includes an additional 0-1, so that upon your 10th birthday you have lived exactly 10 years, but all the following year, from 10.000000001 to 10.999999999 are time spent in your second decade, ergo, the age of 10 is the beginning of a new decade.
Since we are talking about time and not objects there is no other logic than beginning a new time decade upon the exact arrival of the Number+Zero.
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