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From: chuck@dartvax.UUCP (Chuck Simmons)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 4000
Message-ID: <2766@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 17:01:14 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 17 17:01:14 1985
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Dear Uncle Pac-Man,
     Loved your posting on how to figure out when leap years occur.
But I thought I'd bitch about one small paragraph:

> Fact:     The Gregorian calendar has 365.24225 days per year. It accom-
> 	  plishes this by having a uniform rule with 3 orders of
> 	  exception.
> 
> 	     Uniform  rule:  All years consists of 365 days, except
> 	     1st exception:  Any year divisible by 4 has 366 days, except
> 	     2nd exception:  Any year divisible by 100 has 365 days
> 			     unless also divisible by 400, in which case
> 			     it has 366 days, except
> 	     3rd exception:  Any year divisible by 4000 has 365 days
> 

This is actually a uniform rule with 4 exceptions.  No doubt you
purposely destroyed the symmetry of the result to make a subtle pun
about uniformity and exceptions.
     Oh well...  wonderful posting.  Do it again sometime.
dartvax!chuck