Why Do We Have Leap Year?
Posted October 27th, 2007 by big
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Even though we call 365 days a year, the earth does not revolve around the sun in 365 days. Rather, it takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds to do this.
The extra time is made up by adding one extra day to the end of February every four years, EXCEPT in those years which can be divided evenly by 100. Then that extra day is NOT added. However, in years divisible by 400, that extra day IS added.
What that means is simply this, the years 1200, 1600, and 2000 are divisible by 400, so they have the extra day added, making them Leap Years. However, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not divisible by 400, so they were not Leap Years.
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I Dont Get It :S
I Dont Get It :S
i like that
thank you because if i did not get the rest of this paragraph then i would of made a f on my report for why we have a leap year so thank you very much
Oh no
I'm sure Yahoo is really scared.
LEAP YEARS
CAN SOMEONE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY WE HAVE LEAP YEARS BEFORE I SWITCH TO AOL OR HOTMAIL AND NOT RELY ON YAHOO.COM AND I'LL TELL EVERYONE TO SWITCH TO AOL OR HOTMAIL
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