weiss@gondor.UUCP (Michael Weiss) (01/24/85)
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Ok, let's just have some dumb trivia questions to get things
rolling around here: (Mail me answers, and I will correlate and post.)
1) Where did the California gold rush start and in what year?
2) How many calanders do you need to have a 'perpetual' calander?
(Ie: For all eternity you would need no more than X calanders
to represent whatever year you may be in.)
3) What were the first words ever spoken on a telephone
(exactly) and who said them?
4) (For psychics only:) ?
C'mon gang, let's get trivially rowdy!!
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-Michael "on the the Twilight Node" Weiss UUCP...!gondor!weiss
- The opinions expressed herein are those of my superiors,
and are not neccesarily shared by myself.latzko@topaz.ARPA (Alex Latzko) (01/30/85)
I hope these are the answers you wanted. > > Ok, let's just have some dumb trivia questions to get things > rolling around here: (Mail me answers, and I will correlate and post.) > > 1) Where did the California gold rush start and in what year? Near Suters Mill which is near Sacramento(sp) CA in 1848 > > 2) How many calanders do you need to have a 'perpetual' calander? > (Ie: For all eternity you would need no more than X calanders > to represent whatever year you may be in.) > Remembering my World Almanac it takes 17 calanders to make a perpetual listing. > 3) What were the first words ever spoken on a telephone > (exactly) and who said them? Mr Watson! Come here I need you. Alexander Grahm Bell > > 4) (For psychics only:) ? Unfair. Its hard to read a computers mind. > > C'mon gang, let's get trivially rowdy!! > > -- > -Michael "on the the Twilight Node" Weiss UUCP...!gondor!weiss > > - The opinions expressed herein are those of my superiors, > and are not neccesarily shared by myself. Cheers, /S* UUCP: !harvard!topaz!latzko ARPA: latzko@Topaz
kfl@hoxna.UUCP (Kenton Lee) (01/31/85)
xxx Isn't a perpetual calendar need only 14 different calendars? The year can start on one of 7 days and can have one of 2 lengths.
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (02/01/85)
> > 2) How many calanders do you need to have a 'perpetual' calander? > > (Ie: For all eternity you would need no more than X calanders > > to represent whatever year you may be in.) > > > Remembering my World Almanac it takes 17 calanders > to make a perpetual listing. > Seventeen? Fourteen. One that begins the year on each day of the week, for years with 365 days, and seven more for the leap years. -Ron
preston@ut-sally.UUCP (Randal Preston) (02/06/85)
Nope! It's got to be *at least* 28 years (7 days/week * 4 years/leap-year cycle) But I also think that century-marks throw a kink into things, so I'd say an integral number of centuries. (10 centuries? Doesn't something special happen on the years 1000, 2000, 3000, etc.?)
adm@cbneb.UUCP (02/07/85)
/* BLANK line or Blankity-blank line if you prefer */ > 2) How many calanders do you need to have a 'perpetual' calander? > (Ie: For all eternity you would need no more than X calanders > to represent whatever year you may be in.) The proposed answer of fourteen calanders[sic] works for recent centuries and the foreseeable future; that is a 1/1/** for each day of the week plus another seven for leap years. However, others are needed for a perpetual calendar. For example, a special one is needed for 1752. September of that year is missing eleven days. Try cal 9 1752 on your UNIX(c) system. That should add over a thousand contiguous years to the perpetual calendar. If I remember my ancient history correctly, the caesars Augustus and Julius both 'stole' a day from February to make their months longer. I'm sure that would add several calendars for both the transition years and however they looked before that. (Aren't leap years a fairly new invention?) Answer: 15 + whatever the romans needed.
gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) (02/08/85)
In article <868@ut-sally.UUCP> preston@ut-sally.UUCP (Randal Preston) writes: >Nope! It's got to be *at least* 28 years > (7 days/week * 4 years/leap-year cycle) > >But I also think that century-marks throw a kink into things, so I'd say >an integral number of centuries. (10 centuries? Doesn't something special >happen on the years 1000, 2000, 3000, etc.?) I presume this was about the number of different calendars. If so, I disagree. The "year in the leap-year cycle" is not involved except for the leap-year yes/no. A year which is not a leap-year, and starts on, for example, a Wednesday, will have the same calendar no matter whether the next leap-year is 1, 2 or 3 years ahead. It STILL looks like 7 leap-year calendars, 7 non-leap-year calendars, 14 total calendars. As for centuries (for which the definition of leap-century is simple enough), it is still either leap or non-leap, and starts on one of the 7 days! FROM: Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems USENET: {ucbvax, ihnp4, decvax!decwrl}!amd!cae780!gordon {nsc, resonex, qubix, hplabs}!cae780!gordon USNAIL: 1333 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 AT&T: (408)745-1440