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Question for the smarties

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SpaMan:
Funny guys!LOL and very good Stuart!

drewstar:
Here's a good resource for why there is 360 degrees in a circle:

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58395.html

It's all those damn Babyloiians fault...

tootall:
Ok smarties heres one there are 365 days in a year right? ok all agree so far? 52 weeks make one year right? and we can all agree to that? and there are seven days in a week? ok! 7X52=364days were is the other day?

stuart:

--- Quote ---Ok smarties heres one there are 365 days in a year right? ok all agree so far? 52 weeks make one year right? and we can all agree to that? and there are seven days in a week? ok! 7X52=364days were is the other day?
--- End quote ---

a (non-leap) year consists of 52 weeks plus an extra day. For
a leap year, there will be two extra days, since the remainder of 366 divided by 7 is 2.

drewstar:
That's because the earths rotation around the sun does not take exactly 365 days.  It's more like 365.25 days. If we didn't have a leap year to "Catch up",  the calendar days wouldn't match the "seasonal days" Ie: eventually  We'd be getting Snow on the Juy 4th.  


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