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Originally Posted by RedDevil
The light year is not a metric unit btw, nor is the light foot.
It is actually based on the Julian definition of year length. |
blech, which is defined as
EXACTLY 365.25 days, which is wrong.
" this Julian year does not correspond to years in the Julian calendar or any other calendar. Nor does it correspond to the many other ways of defining a year"
though, probably at this stage of development, at that scale, it doesn't matter. Let 'em have slightly easier calculations than light seconds...