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To: Bernard Marx
According to Wikipedia

As a calendar for keeping track of the seasons, the Haab' was a bit inaccurate, since it treated the year as having exactly 365 days, and ignored the extra quarter day (approximately) in the actual tropical year. This meant that the seasons moved with respect to the calendar year by a quarter day each year, so that the calendar months named after particular seasons no longer corresponded to these seasons after a few centuries. The Haab' is equivalent to the wandering 365-day year of the ancient Egyptians.

40 posted on 03/14/2012 8:29:25 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew
"The eclipse pages of the Dresden Codex, for instance, are based on the formula that 405 lunations equal 11,958 days, giving a synodic month of 29.52592 days, only 7 minutes away from the modern value." ATLAS OF ANCIENT AMERICA, Coe, Snow and Benson.

Not bad for a culture without telescopes, computers, atomic clocks and other high-tech goodies.

47 posted on 03/14/2012 9:18:25 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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