{"id":2287,"date":"2012-04-25T22:09:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T02:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2012-04-25T22:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T02:11:35","slug":"number-of-seconds-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/number-of-seconds-in-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of seconds in a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1047\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/approx.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"approx\" width=\"388\" height=\"537\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/approx.png 388w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/approx-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Labrigger editorial team was a little disappointed in the consistently excellent xkcd when the <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1047\/\">recently posted list of approximations<\/a> included:<br \/>\n<strong>Number of seconds in a year = 75^4 (accurate to 1 part in 400)<\/strong><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<strong>Number of seconds in a year = 525600 x 60 (accurate to 1 part in 1400)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <em>our<\/em> physics classes, we always used:<br \/>\n<strong>Number of seconds in a year = Pi x 10^7 (accurate to 1 part in 200)<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still very accurate. And most importantly, the factor of Pi makes for some fascinating cancellations in calculations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1047\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Labrigger editorial team was a little disappointed in the consistently excellent xkcd when the <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1047\/\">recently posted list of approximations<\/a> included:<br \/>\n<strong>Number of seconds in a year = 75^4 (accurate to 1&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/number-of-seconds-in-a-year\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}