Melvin's digital garden

LD 52: Leap year

  • 1/4 - 1/100 + 1/400
  • or venn diagram
  • or average day is 365.2425
  • off in 1 day per 3030 years, much better than the Julian cal of 1 in 128 years
  • earth rotation is slowing down due to energy tranfer to the moon, leap second is inserted

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