Re: February 30th 2000

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 22:14:26 EST


On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> Hi!
>
> It's simple, there won't be any Feb 30. All the rules are about Feb 29
> only. Every 4 years yes. Every 100 no. Every 400 yes. And there are
> more, but those aren't important to us ... it's all approximation of the
> year's length.

The funny thing being: 365+1/4-3/400 is seriously worse approximation than
plain and beautiful 365+1/4-1/128. Somebody didn't grok binary...

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Jan 15 2000 - 21:00:21 EST