{"id":2062,"date":"2008-05-07T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T05:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2021-08-30T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:59:00","slug":"to-balance-a-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"to balance a calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Martian year is 668.6 Martian days; that’s 3.4 less than 24×28. I asked myself, how should the short months be arranged for best ‘balance’? I ran all combinations and this is it:<\/p>\n

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The three big dots represent the missing days in short months; the smaller dot represents the sometimes-missing day in the variable month; and the diamond, slightly left of center, is the center of gravity of the dots.<\/p>\n

Then I thought, what if I were designing a calendar for a world where the number of days in a year is 5¼ off from a multiple of 12?<\/p>\n

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