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As an interesting side-note, 365 has two prime factors: 5 and 73. That means you can cleanly divide the year in five 'seasons' (or 'pentamesters', I suppose) of
by mckirk 3y ago
As an interesting side-note, 365 has two prime factors: 5 and 73. That means you can cleanly divide the year in five 'seasons' (or 'pentamesters', I suppose) of 73 days each, which somehow seemed... beautiful to me from a mathematical perspective.
In case anyone else is curious and wants to segment their year in 20% chunks, the start dates are:
- January 1st
- March 15th
- May 27th
- August 8th
- October 20th
- ISL 3y agoThe prime factors of 366 are 2, 3, and 61. You'll need them, too :).
- mckirk 3y agoThe first rule of pentamester club is: we do not talk about February 29th ;)
- _hzw 3y agoor you can have a day of break every four years :(
- madcaptenor 3y agoOr you can observe 1461 = 3 * 487 and divide every four-year period into... um... three hexadecamesters?
- RamblingCTO 3y ago- January 1st: depression and solitude - March 15th: spring, yay - May 27th: summer - August 8th: late summer + bit of autumn - October 20th: autumn and christmas something like that?
- drbawb 3y agoSomeone beat you to that punch a long time ago. Here is a whole calendar replete with holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar for your viewing pleasure.
- mckirk 3y agoDamn, thanks for letting me know! I suspect then that I was prompted to re-discover this by some fnording guy in a submarine, using mind control satellites or something.
- brennopost 3y agoOr even 73 seasons of five days each.
- EricBetts 3y agoThere was a topic about micro seasons in Japan, that were each five days long, recently