khan
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| Quote (midwifetoad @ April 25 2013,08:23) | | Quote (Kattarina98 @ April 25 2013,03:08) | | On my favourite public radio station, this morning they commemorated an important event. Congrats to all of you scientists out there! |
Most news outlets missed the 400th anniversary of the Gregorian calendar. Significant because it requires a leap year correction every 400 years.
In most countries, the year 2000 was the first year divisible by 400 to have a leap year.
I normally don't follow things like that, but I was learning to program, and one of my first self defined projects was a days between dates calculator.
For some reason I wanted it to work across the Julian/Gregorian gap. When I got it working I realized it was just a week before the anniversary. |
I was involved in the USAF computer clean up for Y2K; people almost got into fist fights over whether 2000 was to be a leap year.
I learned about the Gregorian Calendar in 9th grade.
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"It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall
That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad
Frequency is just the plural of wavelength...
-JoeG
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