On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:19:04 -0500, Joel Ewing wrote: >> >> 365 31/128 is within one second of the mean tropical year; closer even >> than the 4000-year rule. > >Amazingly, if you do the math, the result of a 4/128 year rule is >mathematically identical to the average days/year of a >4/100/400/3200-year algorithm. ... > >Despite the elegance of a much simpler 4/128 solution, I would suspect >there would be much less opposition to adding a 3200-year exception ... > Hmmm... The next year divisible by 128 is 2048 (Why did I need a calculator for that!?) When is the next year divisible by 3200?
(Back to my calculator.) Ah! Small wonder they could care less. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
