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A normal year has 365 days or 52 weeks. 52 x 7 = 364. Where did the extra day go?

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I thought that a normal year has 364.25 days in a year? That's why we have a leap year every 4 years. No?

phkrause

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365.25 (roughly, with a few further tweaks required on the century years) if I recall correctly.

The trick is that it's not a neat and tidy 52 weeks. Taking 2010 (not a leap year) as an example, January 1 was a Friday and December 31 will be also be a Friday. (If they were neat whole weeks it would be a Thursday because the Friday would form the first day of the next whole week.)

So, more tidily, we should think of the year as '52 weeks and a day', which adds up to 365...

Nice misdirection in the statement of the problem, though... and I hope I'm not spoilsporting it by solving it so soon...

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Then 24 hrs x 364.25 = 8742 hrs x 3 yrs = 26226 hrs + (365 x 24)[8760 leap yr hrs] = 34986 hrs every 4 years

34986/4 = 8746.5 hrs per year / 24 hrs per day = 364.4375 days per year average

Nope, 364.25 hrs per day doesn't add up right. Maybe Bravus can help us out. (Maybe I did the math wrong!)

Pam     coffeecomputer.GIF   

Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup.

If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony.

Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?

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Bravus wins again!!

**goes to look for a trophy**

Pam     coffeecomputer.GIF   

Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup.

If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony.

Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?

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Italy.

ROFL

Pam     coffeecomputer.GIF   

Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup.

If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony.

Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?

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Sorry rudywoofs, even though I typed 364 I did mean 365. My bad. :)

phkrause

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2

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