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The earth goes around the sun in a circle in 365 and a quarter days but a circle only has 360 degrees in it so you have 5 days more or a circle are 5 degrees short why?
RobertS1a2
A very good attempt to relate such resembling values together!
It is not necessary for earth to go around the sun in 365 and quarter days. If the earth has taken say 600 days to go around the sun. Yet the degree around a point would be only 360.
So it is not so essential for the earth to cover one degree in one day. If suppose it takes 600 days then to cover one degree it would take 600/360 = 5/3 = 1.666667 day.
As it takes 365.25 day to cover 360 degree then in one day it would cover, 360/365.25 = 0.9856 deg
Or to cover one degree it would take 365.25/360 = 1.01458 day.
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