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Why are there 365 days in a year, not 364?
Best Answer : The jump year (leap year) is a contrivance so that the calendar 12 months (usually 365 days) does not get too a long way away from the solar (astronomical) year. You say: huh? Well, the astronomical year - the time it takes the earth to go exactly once around the solar - is no longer precisely 365 days. The ancients estimated it as 365.25 days. …
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why does a day have only 24 hours?
P erhaps you have wondered why the watch strapped to your wrist (how it actually works?), your mobile display or some kind of another damn clock on the planet shows 12 figures signifying 12 hours? The reason why isn’t it some other random number, like 28 or 16? What is the importance of twelve in our understanding of time? l et’s try to understand this pro…
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