Rex Boggs wrote:
"Not statistics, not even a 'maths' book but an enjoyable read is 'The
Calendar' by David Ewing Duncan. The subtitle reads, The 5000 year
struggle to align the clock and the heavens...""
Yes, the calendar is really quite a complex things, owing in large part
to the fact that the revolution of Earth about the Sun is not an
integral number of times longer than the rotation of the Earth upon its
axis. For my part (and this may be very American of me), I feel that we
should all just ante up and pay to have the Earth sped up or slowed down
to solve the problem!
Will Dwinnell
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