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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    You don’t know what you’re talking about

    13x28=364. The moon makes 14 sidereal orbits, not 13. The reaaon the year is split into 12 months is a combination of Roman dipshittery and the fact that 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. The number of factors of 12 made 12 and 60 way easier to work with for societies that hadn’t invented the decimal point yet.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      18 hours ago

      Then please explain how the Hebrew calendar, and all other lunisolar calendars (calendars which follow both the solar year and the lunar cycle) have 12 months most years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar

      “The majority of years have twelve months but every second or third year is an embolismic year, which adds a thirteenth intercalary, embolismic, or leap month.”