Leap-time (leap days and years and accumulations)

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Bro Tyler (me) scribeth ...

>So, we have about a quarter of a day at the end of each trip around the
>sun that we reward ourselves with an extra day (leap day) on every fouth
>year.  But because the extra days accumulation isn't even (as it's truly 
>.2562 days instead of .25) there's still a remainder at the end of four 
>years.  After four years, 4 X .2562 days, we get a leap day of the 
>accumulations of a extra 24 hour period of time.  But it's not exactly 1 
>day even, but  1.0248 days.  Or 1 day 35 minutes 42.72 minutes.  It takes 
>40.32258064516 *leap days* of accumulations to give us an extra day (which 
>is about 160+ years of time being elapsed) to which even that isn't a whole 
>day but about a third of a day more.... than what has been accumulated.

Ooops!  The 42.72 minutes above ... should be 42.72 seconds.... sorry 'bout
dat.

Every 100 years has us accumulating 25.62 days of extra time in which we
have enjoyed 25 leap days with still and extra .62 days left over to be rolled
over into another leap day somewhere.  If the century wasn't divisible by
400, then we would have 24 leap days with even more accumulations... it is
really really a mess when you look at the math of the calendar and compare
it to what's real astronomically.

I don't care how good at math you are.... calendars just don't add up.

Bro Tyler

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