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by bmacho 542 days ago
They probably could measure summer solstices, and count the days between 4 of them, and they got 1461. They could've measured 1461 days -43 minutes, and be more precise, if they had wanted. Julius Caesar was as short-sighted as most software developers today, and he was only planning for like 40 years (that's already more than 7 hours off) but not much more.