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

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    That’s a bold statement. This was a western invention that spread from Greece around the 5th century. Not always

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

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        19 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.

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            19 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. :)

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              18 hours ago

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