Thursday, June 15, 2017

Quiz Question

The calendar proposed here, is valid until the year 35334, as that year would have 356 days. This would be the first time that a year would have other than 353, 354, 355, 383, 384, or 385 days, and we would not know what to do, with the rules that are in place today.

Changes in the three motions regarding the Earth that underlie the calendar - the spinning of Earth, the rotation of Moon around the Earth, the rotation of the Earth around the Sun - will likely undermine the accurateness of the calendar already before the year 35334. So, there is no real point in devising a calendar that goes beyond that year.

But, can anyone think of the reason why the year 35334 will be the cut-off year? Why is it the first year to have 356 days, according to the algorithm given in the paper?

אֵלֶ֣יךָ זָעֲק֣וּ וְנִמְלָ֑טוּ
  בְּךָ֖ בָטְח֣וּ וְלֹא־בֽוֹשׁוּ
(Tehilim 22)