Leap Year Q&A!

Leap Year Q&A

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Question #4

Q: What did the astronomer Sosigenes calculate the length of a year to be?

Q: Because everyone in the world had different time measuring tools, there were problems. What were the four problems?

Q: To temporarily solve this, how many days were added to the Julian Calendar in 46 BC?

A: The astronomer Sosigenes calculated

that the length of a year

was 365 1/4 days.

A: 11 days or 23 days?

A: What time it actually was,

Whether time exists when nothing is changing,

What kinds of time travel is possible,

How time is related to mind.

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Q: Why was leap day added to February?

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Q: What was his solution?

Q:When did the practice of adding a day in February to the calendar begin?

46 BC

Q: What did Sosigenes use to find these calculations?

Q; Who was the pope and what did he do?

A: His solution was that every four years there will be added one day.

A: He used the Julian Calender and his knowledge of the sun and Earth to come up with the calculations of Leap Year.

A: It actually takes Earth 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds to complete its orbit (about 365 1/4 days). Those extra hours gradually add up so that after four years the calendar is out of step by about one day. Adding a day every four years allows the calendar to match up to the solar year again.

A: Gregory XIII said it should only be used in Catholic Places.

A: Egyptions created it but Romans copied it in 45 BC Julian Calender.

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Q: What did we call the year 2000?

Q: How long do we estimate a year to be? A day?

Q: This was not a permanent solution. Christopher Clavius recalculated the data. What did he do with the results and a solution?

Q: What was Calvius' solution?

A: A year is 365 and a day is 24 hours.

A: Millennium

A: Christopher Calvius' solution was to take away 10 days from

When Pope Gregory XIII desired to revise the Julian calendar, He sought advice from a German Jesuit mathematician. Christopher Clavius' solution was to take away ten days from the Julian calendar. Every four hundred years, the extra days that would be added during leap year were taken away. His formula worked, and most countries now use the Gregorian calendar.

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