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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