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by jccooper 4213 days ago
Weeks mostly have to do with the market cycle, which has been anywhere from 4 to ten days depending on the local economy. The Chinese in particular used 5 or 10 day weeks for quite some time. That works better for lunation than 7.

The seven day standard seems to have worked as a reasonable compromise across a wide variety of ancient economies and plan