Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
Neil Newman (neiln@pinn.gen.nz)
Wed, 26 Jul 1995 23:54:30
In <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.
Which is why winter in NZ only lasts 3 weeks and summer goes on forever. So
glad we were colonised by the Brits. Think what the weather would be like if
the Spanish hadn't been eaten by the Maoris.
Neil "Bloody long 3 weeks this year. Damn planet must be approaching light
speed in proper motion" Newman
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