Leap Year Correction by Thomas Fuller

Leap Year Correction by Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller, an enslaved African and mental calculator, was once asked how many seconds a man has lived in 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours. He replied with 2,210,500,800. When told he was wrong, Fuller said, "Massa, you forget de leap year," which was correct once the seconds of the leap years were added.

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