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Proof for the curious: http://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+seconds+in+a+year+d...

I understand what you did, but the mathematician in me cringed at the word "proof" in that comment.

That looked like a mathematically rigorous proof to me. What was wrong with it?

Proof by construction is perfectly valid, if usually too difficult to be useful.

May be the word "fact" would be better to describe these kind of numbers.

proof by googlization

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