From: ken@coho.halcyon.com (Ken Pizzini)
Subject: Re: Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself
Date: 1996/10/02
Date: 1996-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52u94i$6q7@news1.halcyon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52qpqt$1b3l@ilx018.iil.intel.com
In article <52qpqt$1b3l@ilx018.iil.intel.com>,
Uri Raz <uraz@iil.intel.com> wrote:
>dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) wrote:
>> Which ought to have shown you that the figures are exact for every period
>> of 400 years. The situation is similar to a pseudo-random number generator
>> that repeats a sequence of 100 digits 0 and 1 with 49 occurrences of 0
>> and 51 of 1. When you look at it without background information it looks
>> uniform, but because you know it repeats you know also that it is biased
>> in favour of 1 and so not uniform.
>>
> Read sci.astro's FAQ
> http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/students/lazio/sci.astro.3.FAQ
> The four hundred years cycle is inaccurate, as following it would add three
> days to each 10,000 years, and thus the cycle does not repeat it self.
By our calendar, *as it is currently defined*, there is a 400 year
cycle. I';ll even quote the sci.astro FAQ:
|The error in the Gregorian calendar will build up to a full day in
|roughly 3000 years, by which time another reform will be necessary.
|Various schemes have been proposed, some taking account of the changing
|lengths of the day and/or the tropical year, but none has been
|internationally recognized. Leaving a reform to our descendants seems
|reasonable, since there is no obvious need to make a correction now.
*When* the next calendar reform happens, the 400-year cycle will
be altered. But from the adoption of the Gregorian calendar
(the year varying with the political unit; 1753 was the first
full year for England and her colonies) until such time as the
eventual adjustment is made, the 400 cycle will exist. And who
knows? Maybe our descendants won't care about maintaining some
preconceived notion about keeping celestial events and the
calendar in sync and the cycle will never be broken.
--Ken Pizzini
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1996-09-13 0:00 language wars (results 13 September) last posting Roy Gardiner
1996-09-13 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Robert Fahey
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Luke Chao
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Daniel J. Long
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-10-03 0:00 ` galina.kasminskaya
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dave Tholen
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John Girash
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John Girash
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Clinton Pierce
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself Lee Crites
1996-09-25 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
[not found] ` <52qpqt$1b3l@ilx018.iil.intel.com>
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini [this message]
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jeff Drummond
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Ray Dunn
1996-09-26 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Glen Clark
1996-09-27 0:00 ` CHI Research, Inc.
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-28 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Mike McCarty
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
[not found] ` <199609302101.JAA04610@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Barrie Walker
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jim Shapiro
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` John Harper
1996-09-25 0:00 ` jupiter
1996-09-24 0:00 ` language wars (results 13 September) last posting Andrew Gierth
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
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1996-10-03 0:00 Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself James Gillespie
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Paul Skoczylas
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
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