Re: Way off topic coincidence?

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:46:30 -0800 (PST), gully
<gulliverfoyle2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As many of you know I have some time on my hands, so I read a couple
of hard copy newspapers all the way through. One of them always has an
extensive list of today's birthdays, which for some reason was shorter
today. But the real coincidence was that all of the ages were
divisible by four! Shoot me, I notice things like that; I taught
middle school math for a long time.

gully/four


That's because leap years pretty much occur every 4 years:

Leap day (February 29) only occurs during a Leap Year.

Leap Years occur every four years, except for years ending in 00, in
which case leap day only occurs if the year is divisible by 400.

Leap years consist of 366 days and happen every fourth year (except
for years ending in 00 as noted above), by the addition of a day in
the month of February, which in that year consists of twenty-nine
days. Leap day is February 29 of Leap Years.
By the way, the millennium doesn't start on January 1, 2000.

Michael
(http://michaelschey.blogspot.com/)
.

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