Fascinating

I had to invigilate an exam today, where I learned a most interesting fact whilst perusing the reading section. Apparently, in A.D. 730 some monk calculated that Julius Ceasar's assumption (800 years earlier) that a year was exactly 365.25 days long, was slightly inaccurate and would throw the calendars out by about one day every 128 years. Nobody did anything about it until 1582, when the Pope decreed that the 4th of October would be followed immediately by the 15th of October to get rid of the ten extra days thus far accumulated. To make future adjustments for the error, it was also decided that years ending in '00' would only be leap years if they were divisible by 400.

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Fascinating.
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Pictured is one of the booths in the language lab which each house antiquated headphone systems which were once, back in the 80s, thought useful for teaching languages, and which my university still thinks are.

Ever considered whining about getting rated 1? Read my year ago and think again.