Assertion: calendar | /r/CapableOf | accumulate one day of error
Facets:
value: with respect to the solar year
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The average length of a year in the Gregorian calendar is 365.2425 days compared to the actual solar tropical year (time from equinox to equinox) of 365.24219878 days, so the calendar accumulates one day of error with respect to the solar year about every 3300 years.
text: So close is this to the actual solar tropical year of 365.24219878 days that this calendar accumulates an error of one day only every 3.8 million years.
text: The calendar thus accumulates one day of error with respect to the solar year every 128 years.
text: The average length of a year is 365.2468 days compared to the actual solar tropical year (time from equinox to equinox) of 365.24219 days, so the calendar accumulates one day of error with respect to the solar year every 216 years.