Olympiads to Weeks (olympiad to wk)
1 olympiad equals 208.71 weeks exactly.
How to convert olympiads to weeks
To convert olympiads to weeks, multiply the number of olympiads by 208.71. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply weeks by 0.004791337262 (rounded).
weeks = olympiads × 208.71
Example: 10 olympiads = 2,087.1 weeks.
Months and years are not constant. This site uses the average Gregorian year of 365.2425 days, so one 'year' converts to 365.2425 days, not 365; use 'common year' for exactly 365 days.
About these units
Olympiad (olympiad)
Four years, the interval between ancient Olympic Games. The Greeks dated events by the Olympiad.
Greek historians dated events by Olympiads, the four-year cycles that began with each celebration of the Games at Olympia. The traditional first Olympiad starts in the summer of 776 BC, the date given for the victory of Coroebus. Hippias of Elis compiled the first full list of victors, now lost, and Timaeus of Tauromenium used the system consistently in the 3rd century BC.
Some ancient writers called an Olympiad a five-year period, but that came from inclusive counting, and each cycle was in fact four years long. Because the Games took place in midsummer, an Olympiad year ran from one summer to the next and did not match the Roman consular year beginning in January. Early dates were applied backwards and are less reliable. The modern Olympiad is also four years, but it starts on 1 January of years divisible by four, beginning with 1896. Four Gregorian years is about 126.2 million seconds.
1 olympiad = 126,227,808 seconds (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Olympiad
Week (wk)
Seven days. The seven-day week comes from the ancient Near East and is nearly universal in the modern calendar.
Nothing in the sky produces a seven-day cycle, which makes the week a human invention with a contested pedigree. Babylonians marked the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th of the lunar month as special, but that was not a continuous cycle. A continuous seven-day cycle tied to the Sabbath is attested in Judaism by the 6th century BC at the latest, and scholars disagree on whether it was borrowed from Babylon or developed independently. The Romans later used a week named for the Sun, the Moon and the five visible planets, and in AD 321 Emperor Constantine decreed it across the empire.
A week is seven days, or 604,800 seconds, and it divides evenly into neither months nor years, which is why calendars shift against it. The ISO 8601 standard starts each week on Monday and assigns week 1 to the week containing the year's first Thursday, so some years have a week 53. Other societies used different lengths: Rome had an eight-day market cycle, and revolutionary France used a ten-day week from 1793 to 1802. The English word comes from Old English wice, meaning a turn or succession.
1 week = 604,800 seconds (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Week; Wikipedia: ISO week date
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