February gets an extra day every leap year. ( If you don't know that, where have you been?) If an individual is born on that day that occurs once every four years, they would only be, strictly speaking, one year old when other people born that same year are four.
2006-11-19 12:34:30 · 15 answers · asked by Bilko! 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
They'd be 20, duh? How many birthdays have they had? Five
2006-11-19 12:35:43 · answer #1 · answered by horsinround2do 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They would still be 20 years old because they have lived for 20 years.
How old you are IS NOT THE SAME as how many birthdays you have had.
The answer HAS TO BE 20, even though they may have had only 5 birthdays (and even that is doubtful as the birthday can be celebrated on the 1st March).
Also, I don't see how Aaron's answer makes sense at all. On one hand he is counting this person's age as 5 but then he says they would have to be 84 to drink. He is using two different systems there. If he subscribes to the theory that it's 5 and not 20, then the person would have to be 21 to drink. Or 18 anywhere outside the US for that matter.
2006-11-23 14:26:18 · answer #2 · answered by London Aussie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
20
2006-11-19 20:36:19 · answer #3 · answered by timjim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After 20 years, they would still be 20 years old. Technically they would be 7305 days old, and will have only had 5 times to actually celebrate their actual "birth" day.
In years of quantitive time they still are the same number of years old as someone born the day before or the day after they were. Only the time in hours would have changed.
2006-11-19 22:43:22 · answer #4 · answered by damsel36 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Uncle Bill was born on leap day. Officially, for Army and Social Security, they counted his birthday as March 1st. But he always counted it by 4s. So he died at the age of 24 and a half, going on 99.
2006-11-20 00:22:16 · answer #5 · answered by Ara57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No- they would jsut celebrate the birthday on March 1st and still be the same age. If it's leap year your birthday doesn't change does it?
2006-11-19 20:36:28 · answer #6 · answered by Mommyk232 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
20
Missing one day every 4 years makes no difference in a persons age when compared to a whole year.
2006-11-19 20:40:46 · answer #7 · answered by Kitty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
5 years old.
2006-11-19 20:36:10 · answer #8 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They would be 5 years old. They can't drink alcohol until they are 84 years old
2006-11-19 20:36:30 · answer #9 · answered by Aaron 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that would be just basic math; 20 / 4 = 5. they would have had five birthdays counting their actual birth day.
2006-11-19 20:43:16 · answer #10 · answered by g 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
After twenty years, they'd be twenty years old. Imagine that.
2006-11-19 20:37:22 · answer #11 · answered by T Time 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋