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> 3. A year is more precisely 365.2422 days. Well. That depends how you measure it. You get a different answer depending on whether you’re measuring the mean t
by dave4420 3y ago
> 3. A year is more precisely 365.2422 days.
Well. That depends how you measure it. You get a different answer depending on whether you’re measuring the mean tropical year, or spring equinox to spring equinox, or winter solstice to winter solstice, or etc.
Also your descendants will get a different answer when they measure it in a few thousand years time. If this calendar was adopted, it would get abandoned before a 60k-ish year cycle completed and a year with three leap months was inserted, let alone a year with four leap months. It feels like bugs would slip in.
Better would be to adjust the cycle so that leap years occur slightly more often, but no more than one month is added to any one year, similar to the proposal that 8 years out of every 33 in the Christian calendar should be leap.
- theanonymousone 3y ago244 leap years in each 5500-year cycle leaves quite a small residue.
- dave4420 3y agoSorry, what 5500 year cycle are you talking about?
- theanonymousone 3y agoI mean 240 leap years every 5500 years, like 8 leap years every 33 years you mentioned.
- dave4420 3y agoAh, gotcha :-)