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[Mike McCarty]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
>> On 7/30/05, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> There should be 13 month in a year and 28 days in a month. The middle of
>>> the night should be midnight and the middle of the day noon. The first
>>> day on the moon should be the first day of the month and the last day of
>>> the moon should be the last day of the month.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> That doesn't work. 13 does not divide evenly into the 365.24 rotations
>> the Earth performs as it revolves around the Sun once. Nor does 28
>> divide evenly into the 27 days and 8 hours that elapse for every cycle
>> of the moon.
>>
>>  
>>
> 13 does breakdown to leaving one extra day a year that would need to be 
> added to a month somewhere or left alone as month 14.

Not possible. The length of the year is not a simple multiple of the
length of a day. Furthermore, the length of the day is not constant.

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Mike
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