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jwhouk:
Thirty days has September
April, June, and November
All the rest have thirty-one
Except February
which has two less thirty one.
Wingy:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 19 Nov 2020, 05:35 ---Except February
which has two less thirty one.
--- End quote ---
Having passed algebra, I've never understood this. How can a month have negative days in it?
Fortunately, none of my teachers ever insisted on us memorizing such nonsense, so I never did. And now that my phone has an easily accessible calendar function, I literally never need to know, I can just look it up... :lol:
cesium133:
two less [than] thirty-one. (i.e. twenty-nine)
Which is only true one year in four (well, a little less if you consider century years).
Thirty days has September
April, June, and November
All the rest have thirty-one
Except February
Which is all fucked up.
pwhodges:
The version I know runs:
Thirty days has September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone
Which has but twenty-eight days clear,
Or twenty-nine in each leap year.
N.N. Marf:
That ei/ie mnemonic is a rule of thumb. As for days per month, a there's handy mnemonic, that doesn't care whether you've lost your thumb to the descriptivist mob (but does that you have all 4 fingers): knuckles being long months, and valleys between being short months, starting at one end, proceeding towards, and recycling at, the last, resetting at year-end---assuming you know, of course, the first short month's idiosyncrasies, and the long/short month lengths---knowing the length of a month, is as easy as counting; comma being recycle, semicolon being year-end: long short long short long short long, long short long short long; Of course, other calendars exist* The convoluted mnemonic should end ``save february, having two less'' (than.. depends on leapyearness)
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