It makes an even better job than the Gregorian calendar when it comes to approximating the calendar to the solar year.

  • Flax
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    26 hours ago

    It’s literally recorded in the Torah, which was at least 1000 years before that

    • @ComradeMiao
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      05 hours ago

      The Torah is still in the west dog. You think the whole world is Europe and the Middle East? China divided them into weeks of ten.

      • Flax
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        35 hours ago

        Thought you were talking about in general, my bad

        • @ComradeMiao
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          15 hours ago

          I was responding to you saying humans seem to always divide by 7. It’s an interesting point you make that it’s been done for a long time but we are saying two things.

          You actually made me think of something I’m gonna go ask the Hebrew specialist, did 7 days in the Hebrew Bible mean 7. I know 7 is their number for a lot just like 10,000 in Chinese. :)

          • Flax
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            14 hours ago

            My lemmy client only shows the comment without context, so unless I have a good memory, etc.

            • @ComradeMiao
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              24 hours ago

              lol, I have a horrible memory so I get you. Kind of you to explain! :)