Re: language wars (results 13 September) last posting

[girash@skyron.harvard.edu (John Girash)]

James Giles (JGiles@cris.com) wrote:

: Assuming that *you* have done so, please have the courtesy to run it
: 2800 years and note that the 13th is equidistributed in weekdays.
: Then you can come back and apologise.  You have to run it more than
: 400 years because you have to go through a complete cycle of exceptions
: to the century rule.

Ah, but in a 400-year cycle, the number of *days* (146 097) is evenly
divisible by 7, so in fact each 400-year cycle starts on the same day of
the week and is equivalent to all others.  Running it for 2800 years shouldn't
do anything but quadruple the 400-year counts, without smoothing them out.

Sorry to not cull the followups line, but I'm not sure what would be best 
to remove {-;


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