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From: marcus@reed.UUCP (Marc Burns)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Answers to my trivium...(trivium?)
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 01:17:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 12 01:17:30 1985
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In article <874@ihuxk.UUCP> rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher) writes:
>> *** REPLACE THIS moose WITH YOUR mother-in-law! ***
>> 
>>       2)  How many calanders do you need to have a 'perpetual' calander?
>> 	  (Ie: For all eternity you would need no more than X calanders
>> 	  to represent whatever year you may be in.)
>> 
>> 	  14.  A month can start on any of seven days, and double that 
>> 	       to account for leap years.  (One person said 28.  28??)
>
>Is it possible that there is something like a "super leap-year" that comes
>once every couple of centuries, with an extra day (in addition to the leap
>day - Feb. 29).  I seem to recall the need for additional correction
>that is provided by adding a day every couple of hundred years (maybe even
>every 1000 years).  I also seem to recall, but this part is much fuzzier,
>that this extra day wouldn't be part of any month, but would be put between
>Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.  Does anyone else remember anything like this, or was
>I just having a dream about strange, mystical calendars?
>


             Perhaps what you  were  thinking  of  when  you
referred  to  the  "super-leap year" was the fact that every
year number that is divisible by 400 is *not* a  leap  year.
i.e.  when  we  reach the high and hallowed year 2000, there
will not be a Feb. 29.


"SCIENCE DOES NOT REMOVE THE TERROR OF THE GODS"