Leap year. It’s a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us. So how did it all begin and why?
Have a look at some of the numbers, history and lore behind the (not quite) every-four-year phenomenon that adds a 29th day to February.
BY THE NUMBERS
The math is mind-boggling in a layperson sort of way and down to fractions of days and minutes.
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