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- From: lowen@lorc.UUCP (Lamar Owen)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Top tips
- Message-ID: <ya1sPB3w164w@lorc.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 07:55:21 EDT
- References: <MJD.92Aug18180241@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
- Organization: LORC Enterprises
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- mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Thomas Pynchon's Little Brother") writes:
- > This would add back one intercalation every 4000 years (for example, the
- > year A.D. 4,000 would be a leap year, although it is not in the present
- > Gregorian Calendar), yielding an average of 365.24225 days per calendar
- > year. Under this calendar the calendar year would lose a day on the
- > seasons every 20,000 years or so.
-
- Huh? If a year number is divisible by 4000, then it is also divisible by
- 400. What I am assuming you mean to say is: "Current rules, except exclude as
- leap years all millenia years, except those divisible by 4000." This would
- provide the numerical results you postulated.
-
- > Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu
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- Lamar Owen, Systems Consultant, GE Lighting Systems, Hendersonville, NC
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