an extra day every 4 years...
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February 29, 2020.
416 views·3 replies·by CELLFISH
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an extra day every 4 years...
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Not quite. There is a more complex formula because an orbit around the sun is NOT exactly 365.25 days, it's 365.2422. Every once in a while you skip the leap year to account for the missing 0.0078 days (11.2 minutes).
*The **year** is evenly divisible by 4; If the **year** can be evenly divided by 100, it is NOT a **leap year**, unless; The **year** is also evenly divisible by 400. Then it is a **leap year**.*
1900 was NOT a leap year because it didn't meet the above formula, 1896 was, 1900 was not, and the "next" leap year was 1904.
an extra day every 4 years...
.
Not quite. There is a more complex formula because an orbit around the sun is NOT exactly 365.25 days, it's 365.2422. Every once in a while you skip the leap year to account for the missing 0.0078 days (11.2 minutes).
*The **year** is evenly divisible by 4; If the **year** can be evenly divided by 100, it is NOT a **leap year**, unless; The **year** is also evenly divisible by 400. Then it is a **leap year**.*
1900 was NOT a leap year because it didn't meet the above formula, 1896 was, 1900 was not, and the "next" leap year was 1904.
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