Re: Birthday calculator

In article <69osmdF34pfr4U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jim Newman <jn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Androcles wrote:


The fact remains that you must produce the numbers if you want to
convince me that perihelion/aphelion wanders by "up to a couple" of
degrees,

What 'numbers' are going to convince you?

None - he's already made up his mind.


a day being approximately a degree.

I really am fascinated to find out why you think this last semi-sentence
was worth adding.

To his intellect, that relation is non-trivial and quite complex.... <g>




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