You probably know what it means to have wrinkles on a shirt–or even on your face. (If you don’t know yet, just wait a few years!)<\/p>\n
But “wrinkle” has a different meaning that you might not know about. If you have a plan or a complicated situation, a “wrinkle” is a small detail that makes the plan a little more difficult or complicated.<\/p>\n
The Gregorian calendar gives us a leap year every four years. Every four years, we have an extra day in February. You know that, right? But there’s a wrinkle. Century years like 1800 and 1900 should be leap years, but they’re not. Following the once-every-four-years pattern, 1900 should be a leap year, but it’s not. That’s a wrinkle with the Gregorian calendar–a small detail that makes things more complicated.<\/p>\n
Here’s another wrinkle: century years divisible by 400 are leap years! So while 1700, 1800, 1900, and 2100 are not leap years, 1600 and 2000 are.<\/p>\n
Any time you have a small detail that complicates a bigger plan or situation, you have a wrinkle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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