[cochne]

Wouldn’t it be 1/(number of days since 1888) for a given day? Or 1/(number of years) for a given year? So less than 1/100 if static and independent

[maccam912]

That's how I read it too, but the record is only for hottest June 24th of all the June 24ths since 1888. So yeah it's 1/number of years or so but we get 365 attempts at that a year to have this headline.