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Re: Why not 13 months?
James Huang (james@oslonett.no)
26 Jul 1995 01:52:08 +0200
In article <DCAEHC.Fvt@midway.uchicago.edu>, hayward@cs.uchicago.edu
(Kristin Rachael Hayward) wrote:
> In article <12251@raven.ukc.ac.uk> rst@ukc.ac.uk (R.S.Thomas) writes:
> :In article <souters-2507951326190001@mac2lvl2-3s.edfac.usyd.edu.au>,
> :Stephen Souter <souters@mackie.edfac.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> :>The chief problem is that 13 happens to be a prime number. This makes it
> :>mathematically impossible to subdivide a year in any satisfactory fashion.
> :>You cannot even divide such a year into the customary four seasons and
> :>hope to come out with the same number of whole months in each season.
> :
> :Easy, you make autumn, winter and spring four months and summer
> :five. With more good weather, everyone will be happy. Except
> :those in the Southern hemisphere of course since our summer is
> :their winter.
>
> You know, it always upsets me when clever people, even someone like
> R.S.Thomas from one of my alma maters (UKC), assume that there are
> four seasons. Maybe for those of you lucky enough to live in climes
> whereblack flies are not the state bird, but here in Maine we get just
> two seasons, summer, which occurs on July 16 and part of the 17th,
> and winter which lasts the rest of the time. Unfortunately, it
> rained this summer, and we missed it.
>
> :)
Regardless, it would be blessing if this thread could be confined to the
newsgroups which are more appropriate.
It is possible to edit the "Newsgroups:" and "Followup-To:" lines.
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