how many days in a week?
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none...the word "day" doesn't appear at all in "a week"
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What Is the Origin of the 7-Day Week?\nDigging into the history of the 7-day week is a very complicated matter. Authorities have very different opinions about the history of the week, and they frequently present their speculations as if they were indisputable facts. The only thing we seem to know for certain about the origin of the 7-day week is that we know nothing for certain.\n\nThe common explanation is that the seven-day week was established as imperial calendar in the late Roman empire and furthered by the Christian church for historical reasons. The British Empire used the seven-day week and spread it worldwide. Today the seven-day week is enforced by global business and media schedules, especially television and banking.\n\nThe first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath, Saturday.\n\nExtra-biblical locations sometimes mentioned as the birthplace of the 7-day week include: Babylon, Persia, and several others. The week was known in Rome before the advent of Christianity.\n\nThere are practical geometrical theories as well. For example, if you wrap a rubber band around 7 soda cans (or any other convenient circular objects). You get a perfect hexagon with the 7th can in the middle. It is the only stable configuration of wrapping more than 3 circular objects. Four, 5, and 6 objects will slip from one configuration to another. Ancients wrapping tent poles, small logs for firewood, or other ciruclar objects might have come upon this number and attach a mystical significance to it.\n\nOne viable theory correlates the seven day week to the seven (astrological) "planets" known to the ancients: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar periods, however. A solar year could be more evenly divided into weeks of 5 days, and the moon phases five-day and six-day weeks make a better short term fit (6 times 5 is 30) to the lunar (synodic) month (of about 29.53 days) than the current week (4 times 7 is 28). The seven-day week may have been chosen because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 = 7.3825).\n \n\n\n What Do the Names of the Days of the Week Mean?\n\nAn answer to this question is necessarily closely linked to the language in question. Whereas most languages use the same names for the months (with a few Slavonic languages as notable exceptions), there is great variety in names that various languages use for the days of the week. A few examples will be given here.\n\nExcept for the sabbath, Jews simply number their week days.\n\nA related method is partially used in Portuguese and Russian:\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nEnglish Portuguese Russian Meaning of Russian name \nMonday segunda-feira ponedelnik After "do-nothing" \nTuesday terça-feira vtornik Second \nWednesday quarta-feira sreda Middle \nThursday quinta-feira chetverg Fourth \nFriday sexta-feira pyatnitsa Fifth \nSaturday sabado subbota Sabbath \nSunday domingo voskresenye Resurrection \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n\nMost Latin-based languages connect each day of the week with one of the seven "planets" of the ancient times: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. French, for example, uses:\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nEnglish French "Planet" \nMonday lundi Moon \nTuesday mardi Mars \nWednesday mercredi Mercury \nThursday jeudi Jupiter \nFriday vendredi Venus \nSaturday samedi Saturn \nSunday dimanche (Sun) \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n\nThe link with the sun has been broken in French, but Sunday was called dies solis (day of the sun) in Latin.\n\nIt is in
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Oh dear- that's a difficult one ! Let me see now, 52 weeks in a year (with a day or three over) divided by four, looks like 13 (with a day or three over.....)
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5, 10 or 15 days usually depends on the state and or county or city,\n\nhere it's 10 days thats working days.
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Theres an extra day on the last week. Think how your birthday moves forward a day each year. Ther are actually 365 1/4 days in a year. The leap year every 4 years means this doesnt ever go out of synch too far
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7 times a week at least
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It is generally considered that there are 52 weeks an a year. 7 days a week times 52 weeks is 364 days, 1 day short of a normal year and 2 days short in a leap year.\n\nP.S. I just noticed your comment. There are years where there are 53 pay days in the year. We had a municipal district that tried to not pay their employees their 53rd check because they had already been paid  for 52 weeks. The employees went to court and got their 53rd paycheck.
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Jason M - That has to do with months, not weeks.\n\nThe 7 day week is because of creation.
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Monday, is the first day of the week.  God made the Earth in six days and rested on the seventh which is Sunday the last day of the week.  They put Sunday the first day of the week on the calendar so people don't get Saturday & Sunday mixed up.
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More than one week is too long.
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A fortnight is a unit of time equal to two weeks: that is 14 days, or literally 14 nights. The term is common in British English, Hiberno-English and Australian English, but rarely used in American English. It derives from the Old English feowertiene niht, meaning "fourteen nights".
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Friday or Monday as then you have a 3 day weekend.  Sometimes if one of those days is already a Holiday then utilize a Thursday or Tuesday so that you have a 4 day weekend!
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That depends if you are adding one to one of the same thing, or different things.  Like one apple, plus one apple, there are two apples.  Unless you have one apple, eat it, then have another apple, then it's still just one apple. Or, are you adding days.  Since the concept of "day" itself is philosophical, you can never really have more than one day in reality.  It's always today.  Yesterday becomes ephemeral, and tomorrow never gets here, because it is always today.  So you can never have more than one day, so one day plus one day equals one day.
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at least 30 minutes or longer, 5 days a week.
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261 working days in a year, for non-leap years that begin on a weekday. Non-leap years that begin on a weekend have 260 working days. Leap years that begin on Monday thru Thursday have 262 working days, that begin on Friday or Sunday have 261 days, and that begin on Saturday have 260
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Monday, just like in The US. The only difference is that depending on the school, the end of the week can be either Friday or Saturday.
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I COULD SIT HERE AND ASK YOU WHY THERE ARE 7 DAYS IN A WEEK, WHY 24 HOURS IN A DAY, WHY WE DON'T WORK 2 OR 3 DAYS AND HAVE 4 OR 5 DAYS OFF. TELL YOU THE TRUTH I COULDN'T BEGIN TO TELL YOU WHY WE DO THE THINGS WE DO.