At 20:38 -0600 on 12/16/2011, Chris Mason wrote about Re: Imagine
dealing with THIS in production:
Mike
Just think about all the people born on Feb 29th.
They would have their 15th birthdate when they are 60 years old.
"Paradoxically" a 29th February birthday can have happy consequences
- at least in the fertile imagination of a writer of libretti for
comic opera such as William Schwenck Gilbert:
<quote>
You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year,
on the twenty-ninth of February;
And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you¹ll easily discover,
That though you¹ve lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays,
you¹re only five and a little bit over!
</quote>
http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pirates/web_op/pirates18.html
Chris Mason
But when was he born? While the 21st birthday is supposed to occur in
1940, will he be 84 or 88 then? The year 1900 was NOT a leap year so
he would need to wait from 1896 until 1904 for his next birthday
(unless Gilbert goofed and counted the non-existent February 29,
1900). See Isaac Asimov's Black Widower "Year of the Action" for
details.
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:09:21 -0600, Mike Schwab
<mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
They would have their 15th birthdate when they are 60 years old.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Tom Marchant
<m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:57:14 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
At least they only loose 1 birthday a lifetime. Just think about all
the people born on Feb 29th.
The 60th day of the year? What's the big deal with that?
--
Tom Marchant
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Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
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