Gaussian year

unit of time equaling 365.2568983 days, adopted by Carl Friedrich Gauss as the length of the sidereal year in his studies of the dynamics of the solar system
Intangible unit_of_time Q2723404
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Gaussian year

Summary

Gaussian year is an unit of time[1]. It draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (unit_of_time category, ranking #67 of 82).[2]

Key Facts

  • Gaussian year is credited with the discovery of Carl Friedrich Gauss[3].
  • Gaussian year's instance of is recorded as unit of time[4].
  • Gaussian year's measured physical quantity is recorded as duration[5].
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss is named after Gaussian year[6].
  • Gaussian year's subclass of is recorded as year[7].
  • Gaussian year's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01jz9f[8].
  • Gaussian year's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+365.2568983'}[9].
  • Gaussian year's conversion to SI unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+31558196.01312'}[10].
  • Gaussian year's defining formula is recorded as \mbox{1 Gaussian year}= \frac {2\pi} {k}[11].
  • Gaussian year's Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent is recorded as wd:Q2723404 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)[12].
  • Gaussian year's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[13].
  • Gaussian year's Wolfram Language unit code is recorded as "GaussianYears"[14].

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Works and Contributions

Gaussian year is credited with the discovery of Carl Friedrich Gauss[3].

Why It Matters

Gaussian year draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (unit_of_time category, ranking #67 of 82).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_gaussian-year_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Gaussian year}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/gaussian-year}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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