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Also in case you did not know, the leap year is not on even hundreds of years, i.e. 1900 was not a leap year, and neither will 2100 be under the current calenda
by kqr 2y ago
Also in case you did not know, the leap year is not on even hundreds of years, i.e. 1900 was not a leap year, and neither will 2100 be under the current calendar.
The exception is every four hundred years, which means 2000 was a leap year, as would 1600 have been, and 2400 will be.
This means the year is on average 365.2425 days long[1] -- a constant that I've found surprisingly useful to memorise.
[1]: Because 365 + 1/4 - 1/100 + 1/400.
- beardyw 2y ago> as would 1600 have been Though the Gregorian calendar wasn't adopted in England and America * until 1752, so no 100s or 1000s under the old calendar. * And probably a lot of other places