Re: Calendar -Reply

[PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU]

> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:09:45 -0400
> From: Martha Takats <mtakats@acad.ursinus.edu>
>
> Are you sure that 2000 is a leap year? I thought perhaps 2000 was an
> exception to the 400-year rule, just as 400 is an exception to the
> 100-year rule (and 100 is an exception to the 4-year rule).
> These are like successive terms in a series!

Yes, that's as far as the approximation has gotten yet, giving us the
Gregorian year of 365.2422 days, which is just a wee bit long.  Since
the mean tropical year is 365.242199 days, the next correction would
be to make ordinary those years also divisible by 1,000,000.

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