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MathsIsFun

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Days, Weeks, Months and Years

A new page: Introduction to Days, Weeks, Months and Years (with Maggie the Alien)

Please let me know what you think, and any errors you may find!

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careless25

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Registered: 2008-07-24

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Re: Days, Weeks, Months and Years

Good page over all just found 1 grammatical error(well it didnt sound right to me).

"And there are 365 days in a year (but some years are 366 days long if they are a Leap Year)"

they are a leap Year?

Maybe i m wrong but i just didnt sound right to me...

Last edited by careless25 (2008-11-17 10:37:08)

MathsIsFun

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Re: Days, Weeks, Months and Years

Thanks careless!

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Jai Ganesh

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Re: Days, Weeks, Months and Years

Nice simple page, MathsIsFun!
You could've also added the verse
30 days has September, April, June, and November;
February alone has 28,
All the rest have 31.
An easy way of remembering which months have 30 days and which 31.
A good start, nice thinking of introducing these through an alien!
Further, it could've also been mentioned that if dd/mm/yyyy is a particular day of the week and yyyy is not a leap year, the same date of the same month of the next year year would be one day ahead.

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MathsIsFun

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Re: Days, Weeks, Months and Years

Good Idea, I have it on this page: Months

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"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman