A Matter of Degrees

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Thu Sep 25 18:50:48 CDT 1997


I wrote, in answer to Andrew's question relayed by Chris

>>Because God sez (you could look it up, I'm sure) that a year is a certain 
>>number of days.

Harrison sez
>But that's not really Andrew's question, which is (if I may), why _not_
>use 365.25 as the number of degrees in a circle, as they do (did) in
>China, instead of 360?

ArharhARHarharh.  Maybe we could just forget I posted that one, eh?  
ARHarharh, I'll be smarter when the phase of the moon changes.


Cheers,
David




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