Response to a day less than a century

[Brownlie]

A day less than a century
is approximately
thirty six thousand, five hundred and twenty  three point 2
days,
but in regard to tumbles on a mattress
it suggests that one is lonely.

[ChristopherSea]

Check your math: If a century is 365 days x 100 or 36,500 days plus 25 leaps days (assuming one every 4 years) or 36,525 days. One day less is 36,525 - 1 = 36,524 days.

Unless, it is more than 25 leap days?

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This may confuse even more, from Wiki:

In the Gregorian calendar, an end-of-century leap year (often referred to as a century leap year) is a year that is exactly divisible by 400 and, as with every other leap year, qualifies for the intercalation of February 29. End-of-century years that are not divisible by exactly 400 are common years. The years 1600, 2000 and 2400, for example, are end-of-century leap years in a century with 36,525 days. The end-of-century years 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, and 2300 are common years in a century with 36,524 days. End-of-century leap years always start on a Saturday, and thus the resulting upcoming February 29 is always on a Tuesday.

The end-of-century year "divisible by 400" rule of the Gregorian calendar was considered an improvement over the previously utilized Julian calendar which had provided for a leap year at four year intervals. Over time, the Julian practice resulted in too many leap days being added to the calendar, thus causing it to gradually drift with respect to the astronomical seasons of the years (and natural events, such as the spring equinox, to occur earlier and earlier in the calendar).

[Erthona]

Sorry Brownie, but I have no idea what you are saying. What does a century minus one day regardless of how many days that equates to, have anything to do with "tumbles on a mattress". I guess I am being dense here, but I am not seeing a connection between the two.

Dale

[ChristopherSea]

Sorry Brownie, but I have no idea what you are saying. What  does a century minus one day regardless of how many days that equates to, have anything to do with "tumbles on a mattress". I guess I am being dense here, but I am not seeing a connection between the two.

Dale

He's striving to be a Centenarian with a record of 36,524 'rolls in the hay.' That beats Wilt Chamberlain and Gene Simmons combined!  

[Brownlie]

  I like the way this discussion went. I feel like it is a mini version of the literary world. I'm not sure about the leap year I looked at it for awhile but am not the best with numbers. The whole thing almost seems like numerology or something with a day added every four years and another extra day added every 400 years. Yet, the whole thing seems to be done to ease calculations into whole numbers. For that reason, and probably others, my calculation is probably off. According to Google there are 365.242 days in a year so that is what I used.

If I say: "Oh my sweet, I had mourned thee/for a day less than a century" in some type of love doggerel I would be using a different sense than the calculations of the term.

If one were to fire off their love gun everyday for 100 years, well they'd have a lot to talk about. and possibly a nasty bathrobe.

[ChristopherSea]

  I like the way this discussion went. I feel like it is a mini version of the literary world. I'm not sure about the leap year I looked at it for awhile but am not the best with numbers. The whole thing almost seems like numerology or something with a day added every four years and another extra day added every 400 years. Yet, the whole thing seems to be done to ease calculations into whole numbers. For that reason, and probably others, my calculation is probably off. According to Google there are 365.242 days in a year so that is what I used.

If I say: "Oh my sweet, I had mourned thee/for a day less than a century" in some type of love doggerel I would be using a different sense than the calculations of the term.

If one were to fire off their love gun everyday for 100 years, well they'd have a lot to talk about. and possibly a nasty bathrobe.

I think the image of that robe drove Dale straight off-site!

[Brenkin]

Well I'm glad a simple line in my mediocre poem could inspire such academic discussion. Haha