[LEAPSECS] An example

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <3B33E89C51D2DE44BE2F0C757C656C88099AACDF at mail02.stk.com>, "Finklema
n, Dave" writes:


>My colleague, Sal Alfano, included in distribution observes with

>relevance that the state of Indiana in the U.S., legislated that Pi=3

>for convenience.  Eliminating leap seconds for convenience is similar.


I am pretty sure that if you told a random sample of people that
"some scientists belive that some days should be one second long
or shorter than usual", they would compare that to the Pi=3 idea,
not the other way around.

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