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  2. Caesar created a new Julian calendar for Rome that measured a year as 365.25 days long, as the original Roman year was 10 days shorter than a modern year. The seasons were thrown off as a result ...

  3. Leap year - Wikipedia

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    A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year that contains an additional day (or, in the case of a lunisolar calendar, a month) compared to a common year. The 366th day (or 13th month) is added to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical year or seasonal year . [ 1 ]

  4. Leap Day birthday math: How old would you be if you were born ...

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    If the year can be evenly divided by 100, it is not a leap year unless the year is also evenly divisible by 400, according to mathisfun.com. For example, 2000 and 2400 are leap years, but 1800 ...

  5. Is 2024 a leap year? When is leap day, and why is it needed?

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    As mentioned, leap years typically take place every four years. That means the next leap years coming up after 2024 are 2028, 2032, 2036, 2040, 2044 and 2048. But again, it's not quite that easy.

  6. Template:IsLeapYear - Wikipedia

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    It is the same as if 4 mod year = 0 and 100 mod year ≠ 0, then not a leap year, unless 400 mod year = 0, then it is a leap year. Sanity check {{IsLeapYear|2000}} → 1: 2000 AD is effectively a leap year (in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars) .

  7. File:Jalaali Leap Year.svg - Wikipedia

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    Charts the amount of time from the beginning of the year (12:00am, 1 Farvadin, Tehran time) and the spring equinox for each year from A.D. 1750 to A.D. 2250 (Jalaali 1129-1629). Lengths of leap year cycles are indicated with by brackets below graph. Intended for comparison with the analagous Gregorian chart (File:Gregoriancalendarleap_solstice ...

  8. Huh? How Often Do We Have Leap Years, Exactly? - AOL

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    According to Air and Space, we skip a leap year when the year it would normally fall on is divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400. The last time leap year was skipped was in the year 2000 and ...

  9. Birthday problem - Wikipedia

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    With M = 365 days in a year, the average number of people required to find a pair with the same birthday is n = 1 + Q(M) ≈ 24.61659, somewhat more than 23, the number required for a 50% chance. In the best case, two people will suffice; at worst, the maximum possible number of M + 1 = 366 people is needed; but on average, only 25 people are ...