Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
Benton StJ Bonney (aa101291@dasher.csd.sc.edu)
5 Aug 1995 06:14:25 GMT
pausch@electra.saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) writes:
> In article <kimbrell-3007952322080001@godzilla11.pixi.com>,
> C.V. Kimbrell <kimbrell@pixi.com> wrote:
...[snip]...
> > life (and the effects are still seen). - no floor 13 in most buildings,
>
> That's because most buildings aren't that tall!! I cannot recall
> having seen one single building taller than 13 floors where floor
> number 13 was skipped.
I work on the 13th floor of an office building. Of course, it's occupied
by an engineering firm :-) PSOB
...[snip]...
> Well, the year is too short to hold 13 months. We shouldn't add a
> 13'th month just to "prove" we're not afraid of the number 13, should
> we?
I read some a suggestion some years ago that we adopt a calendar with 13
months of four weeks each. 4x7x13=364. Add a new years day with the
appropriate leap day/year correction and you have a system where the the
nth day of the mth month is the same day of the week every year (if the
365th day is at the end of the year).
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Benton Bonney, PE civil/traffic/transportation engineer
Columbia, South Carolina
aa101291@midnet.csd.sc.edu
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