Thursday 29 December 2011

What a beautiful baby!!

2012 is a leap year. The Revised Julian calendar adds an extra day to February in years divisible by four, except for years divisible by 100 that do not leave a remainder of 200 or 600 when divided by 900. This rule agrees with the rule for the Gregorian calendar until 2799. The first year that dates in the Revised Julian calendar will not agree with those in the Gregorian calendar will be 2800, because it will be a leap year in the Gregorian calendar but not in the Revised Julian calendar..

This rule gives an average year length of 365.242222… days. This is a very good approximation to the mean tropical year, but because the vernal equinox year is slightly longer, the Revised Julian calendar does not do as good a job as the Gregorian calendar of keeping the vernal equinox on or close to March 21. (See Wikipedia)

Given this information how old will the beautiful baby (yes it is me!!) in these pictures be on their next birthday if this picture was taken on 20th June 1959 and the baby was already 178 days old (not including day of birth). For accuracy you must give your answer in days.

Me, my Mum and my cousins

All these years later and I have the same haircut!

1 comment:

  1. I'll give you a clue my birthday is Christmas Eve.

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