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061 = Shifting Dates and Lifting Waits

A Problem Squared

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How to Compensate for the Rotation of the Earth's Orbit

The Earth and the sun, the solar system does on very long time scales. There's just enough of it happens per year that it means roughly every 70 years, 72 years, the Earth has moved an entire day earlier in the orbit. So if you're increasing one by a percentage, you increase the other one by the same percentage. The square of the time changes in proportion to the cube of the distance. If you get twice as big, your volume goes up as the cube of that. But I was like, oh, no, I got to compensate for this. It doesn't matter. All I got to do is just do the percentage.

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