[Avodah] length of solar year

[Motti Yarchinai]

Eli,  IMHO You are absolutely right!

There is every reason to believe that Shmuel must have been aware of 
the more accurate value proposed by Rav Adda, for the reasons given 
in my article on Birkat Hachama at: 
http://www.http://www.geocities.com/calendar.luchot

The value was arrived at 300 years before Shmuel and Rav Adda by 
Hipparchus, a Greek mathematician and astronomer, and Shmuel was 
himself an accomplished astronomer. (It would be like graduating from 
a physics course today at a modern university and not knowing 
anything about Newton's laws.) He propsed his value to fix BH (and 
sh'elah) to consistent (solar) dates.

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