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- From: trif@bike.rad.washington.edu (To Run In Fear)
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- Subject: Re: Smoke cigarettes -- leave early!
- Message-ID: <TRIF.92Nov23051645@bike.rad.washington.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 13:16:45 GMT
- Article-I.D.: bike.TRIF.92Nov23051645
- References: <lh07esINN493@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov23.001333.7002@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:13:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.001333.7002@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
- >takes 1 year off your life, so each cig is worth a day.
-
- I heard N = 5 minutes. So 288 cigarettes takes a day out of your life, and
- 105408 cigarettes takes a leap year out of your life. So, therefore, this
- generation of cigarette smokers is lucky, because the year 2000 isn't a leap
- year.
-
- Ah, but the year 2000 *is* a leap year. Usually, the century year isn't a
- leap year. The rule is that every four years is a leap year, except for
- century years, except when the century (19th, 20th, etc.) is divisible by
- four.
-
- Anybody know when the next correction to this rule will have to be made?
-