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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Leap year function
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.184850.14040@uwasa.fi>
Date: 6 Jun 91 18:48:50 GMT
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Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <a4Dy31w164w@allanon.UUCP> marcos@allanon.UUCP (Marcos Della) writes:
:
>You know, I didn't know about the 1722 year.  What month did they drop out the
>days from?  Or did they just shorten all the months except February.
>
>Also, why the heck di they do it and why that particular year?
:

I seem to recall that the information can be found in Numerical
Recipes.

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