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Tenth of a year

Is a decimonge is a tenth of a year? Is there such word for it?

Cosmological decade

What does "10 times the length of the previous cosmological decade" mean? Χιονάκι (talk) 17:14, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Should the unit of a score be included?

I was looking through the revision history and noticed the pattern of a "score" being repeatedly added and removed. I would like to try to explain the primary argument against its inclusion here (as I am of the opinion that it should not be included) so that we may hopefully reach a consensus or at least have a civil discussion to that will ultimately help us do so.

A score is not necessarily a set of twenty years, but rather a unit for any set of twenty things; Merriam-Webster defines a score as "a group of 20 things, often used in combination with a cardinal number," e.g., "two score."
This is consistent with expressions such as "scores of people," which is an indefinite approximation for a large number of people and clearly does not involve anything related to years or any other units of time.
This is similar to a dozen representing twelve of anything rather than twelve of a specific thing (see the page non-numerical words for quantities).
Probably the most famous example of a score being used this way is in the Gettysburg Address speech given by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, which begins with the line "four score and seven years ago." The "four score" in question refers to "four score years" (i.e., 4 x 20 years = 80 years). So it should be noted that the phrase is "[four score and seven] years," not "[four score] and [seven years]."

Xenonts (talk) 18:30, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weird values for years

In the current version in the chapter List is written that:

A common year is 525 days (= 75 weeks)
A tropical year is 539 days
A Gregorian year is 546 days
A sidereal year is 553 days
A leap year is 532 days (= 76 weeks)

Where does these numbers come from? They don't fit to the rest of the article. In my opinion they are just wrong.

Correct should be:

A common year is 365 days (see head of article)
A tropical year is 365.24219 days (see Tropical year)
A Gregorian year is 365.2425 days (see head of article)
A sidereal year is 365.256363004 days (see Sidereal year)
A leap year is 366 days (see Leap year)

Can anyone check and fix this? If the values are correct, they must be explained to avoid confusion. --2A02:908:F21:3BA0:347F:3B67:85BD:7DC0 (talk) 13:25, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. It was some very odd rascal. Remsense诉 15:57, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Units not based on seconds

I suspect that there are countries and regions that developed small units of time other than hours, minutes, and seconds. They should be discussed in this article. Alanmoll (talk) 00:41, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]