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Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Dik T. Winter (dik@cwi.nl)
Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:35:47 GMT
In article <45fc6n$3kd@shore.shore.net> Whittet@shore.net (Whittet) writes:
> number of days in a millenium = 365.24 x 1000 = 365240
If by such reasoning you defend the preciseness of the foot...
In a millenium there are 242 or 243 leap years (250 for each
fourth year minues 10 for each hundredth year plus 2 or 3 for
eacht fourhundredth year). So the number of days in a millenium
is 365242 or 365243.
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