• BillyClark@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    That can’t be correct, can it?

    They would have a rotating 7 year schedule, but it’s messed up by leap years. You have the seven calendars you’re thinking of and 1-2 leap year calendars mixed into those 7 years. It would have to be somewhere between 1 in 8 and 1 in 9, wouldn’t it?

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      56 minutes ago

      No, since there’s only 7 different possibilities, then over a sufficiently large sample, the probabilities would all still balance out to 1 in 7.

    • CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 hour ago

      I think it’s more like 303/2800 chance.

      There are 97 leap days every 400 years, then the calendar repeats. So you have 303/400 chance of not having a leap year, and in those years, you get a 1/7 chance of having this calendar. Thus 303/2800.