On 6/9/2013 11:08 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
a second. If Pope Gregory's mathematicians had been less fixated on powers of 10 and had more precise data they could have suggested the simpler and more accurate formula that each year divisible by 4 but not by 128 should be a leap year.
Actually they were anticipating that leap year tests are easier on packed decimal years with TM than with integer divides <G>
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