1. Re: Leap Years (was EUPHORIA Digest - 20 Feb 2000 to...)
- Posted by Daniel Johnson <dpj22 at CAM.AC.UK>
Feb 22, 2000
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Last edited Feb 23, 2000
# It happens that the solar year is 365 and a little less than a quarter of
# a day...that is to say, the time that it takes for the earth to circuit the
# sun. The difference accumulates, and every four years, we compensate...etc
For your information, a "tropical year" is defined as 31556926 seconds, which
for those of you who cannot do mental arithmetic is 365.24219907407 days. As
for wobblings and slowings, a few years ago an extra second was added to the
year due to unexpected earth wobbles, so I think the scientists have it sussed
and will not need to decide that years divisible by 1000 are not leap years or
anything like that :)
Rob I've spent too much of today trying to hack C++ for my course. I don't
know how you survive using it when you know there is a better alternative.
Have you considered packaging Euphoria up to be available with mainstream
distros ? It would be nice to use the package install command instead of
messing around with web browsers and tar and gz...
Daniel
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