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Subject: Re: Re: Answers to my trivium...(trivium
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 16:21:41 EST
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/***** cbnap:net.games.triv / sdchema!gino /  5:35 pm  Feb 11, 1985 */
>Is it possible that there is something like a "super leap-year" that comes
>
>
>> As I recall, there is an inherent (negative error) of about 3 days every
>> 400 years.  This is solved by NOT having leap years in years that end
>> in "00", unless the year is divisible (sp?) by 400.  Thus there is
>> a leap year in 2000, but not in 1700, 1800, 1900, or 2100.  The errors
>> past this point are so small that they just add or subtract the 
>> minutes (or seconds) between years.

Also I believe the Nat. Bur. of Standards gives us leap seconds on a day
in June.  (Does anyone know the details?)
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