You say you want a (completed?) revolution? Oh yeah you know - we all want to
change the world ('s orbit?)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Gary Weinhold
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] IBM-MAIN Digest - 10 Aug 2015 to 11 Aug 2015 (#2015-223)
And if I were Emperor of the universe, I'd adjust the earth's orbit to make
sure it competed a revolution in exactly 365 days.
gary
On 2015-08-12 00:00, IBM-MAIN automatic digest system wrote:
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:19:38 -0500 From: Paul Gilmartin
> <[email protected]> Subject: Leap (was: LOADING An AMODE64 Program)
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:37:30 -0500, Joel Ewing wrote:
>> >
>> >Encyclopedia Britannica is complicit in the confusion to this day by
>> >incorrectly implying in their "Leap Year" entry that in addition to
>> >the divisible by 4, 100, 400 rules there either is or should be a
>> >4000-year exception rule:
>> >"...For still more precise reckoning, every year evenly divisible by
>> >4,000 (i.e., 16,000, 24,000, etc.) may be a common (not leap) year",
>> >
>> >Over 18 years ago (Nov 1996) EB acknowledged that no such rule exists:
>> >it was an un-adopted and sub-optimal suggestion by Sir John Herschel
>> >around 1820. EB has apparently not yet followed their own internal
>> >recommendation in 1996 "to reword this statement in the future".
>> >
> If I were Emperor of the Universe, I would make the rule:
>
> Every year divisible by 4 except one divisible by 128 is a leap year.
>
> 365 31/128 is within one second of the mean tropical year; closer even
> than the 4000-year rule.
>
> The unpredictable secular increase in the length of the day makes a
> 4000-year rule pointless.
>
> -- gil
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