From: Bill_Leary@msn.com   
      
   "Dr John Stockton"  wrote in message   
   news:wqMQW9CgvTODFwSy@merlyn.demon.co.uk...   
   > JRS:  In article <5oOdnfl-GsVSx6XeRVn-gA@comcast.com>, dated Mon, 26 Sep   
   > 2005 16:33:00, seen in news:comp.lang.pascal.borland, William J. Leary   
   > Jr.  posted :   
   > >Yes.  I understand that as a simple solution.  I also worked out the 100   
   and   
   > >400 rules, on paper, and had run across some notes about a millenia rule   
   as   
   > >well,   
   >   
   > There is no millennia rule, indeed no rule higher than 400, and there   
   > never has been, except perhaps temporarily a 4000 year rule for certain   
   > European revolutionaries.  A 4000 year omission rule would be about   
   > right; a 3200 year one would be quite good, but a 1000 year-rule would   
   > over-correct and make matters worse, as the target is around 365.2422   
   > days per year.   
      
   Thanks.  I couldn't track anything down on it after reading one obscure   
   reference.  As I recall it was "millennia" in the sense that it involved   
   some number of thousands of years rather than all cases of one thousand   
   years.  May have been the four thousand you speak of.   
      
       - Bill   
      
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