Jim Cornette wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 7/30/05, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette(a)insight.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>> There should be 13 month in a year and 28 days in a month. The middle of
>> the night should be midnight and the middle of the day noon. The first
>> day on the moon should be the first day of the month and the last day of
>> the moon should be the last day of the month.
>>
>
>
> That doesn't work. 13 does not divide evenly into the 365.24 rotations
> the Earth performs as it revolves around the Sun once. Nor does 28
> divide evenly into the 27 days and 8 hours that elapse for every cycle
> of the moon.
>
>
>
13 does breakdown to leaving one extra day a year that would need to be
added to a month somewhere or left alone as month 14.
Not possible. The length of the year is not a simple multiple of the
length of a day. Furthermore, the length of the day is not constant.
[snip]
Mike
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