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From: J_Otto_Tennant@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Julian day numbers
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Date: 29 Apr 91 02:09:39 GMT
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This is a summary of the replies I have received in response to my post.

A number of people observed that the "0.0001" part of "30.6001" was
there to avoid errors in representation.  My thanks to:

	steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
	rh@craycos.com (Robert Herndon)
	ne201ph@prism.gatech.edu (Halvorsen, Peter J.)
	ath@linkoping.telesoft.se (Anders Thulin)
	chl@cs.man.as.uk (Charles Lindsey)
	msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)

fernwood!decwrl!PRC.Unisys.COM!ubbpc!wgh (William G. Hutchison) also
notes that "30.6001" is a signature "that can show if you plagarized
a particular book."  (A good point.)

My special thanks to:

	fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer) 
		(um, did I copy that address right?)
	msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)

who observed that with the month renumbering, months conform to
the pattern (31, 30, 31, 30, 31), in the relevant range.  Quoting
"msb@sq.com":

	Since the pattern repeats every 5 months, the denominator
	of the rational number has to be 5, and very little
	fiddling is needed after that.

Indeed.  It only took a 2x4 to make me aware of it.  

My thanks to all of you.