Talk:List of British monarchs by longevity
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Is this just monarchs post 1603? If it isn't Elizabeth I needs to be on here, she got to age 69.
[edit] Calculation
Is it me or do the first two in the list not add up properly?
- Victoria
- 29,829 days
- 81y 7m 29d
- George III
- 29,823 days
- 81y 7m 25d
- Difference
- 6 days
- 4 days
violet/riga (t) 00:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- I have independently noticed the same issue, and I prepared the following question before I was aware of yours. JackofOz 03:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Anomaly
We say that if QE2 lives to 16 December 2007, she would surpass George III, and if she lives just 4 more days to 20 December, she will be older than Queen Victoria. This is obviously based on the 4-day difference between the 81y7m25d of George and the 81y7m29d of Victoria. However the previous column, in days only, suggests they were not 4, but 6, days apart in age at death (29829 – 29823 = 6).
I understand why these would come out differently. Months have varying lengths, so one month does not necessarily equal another. That's OK, as far as it goes. And we have to choose one yardstick over another. So, if we’re going to use the final YMD column as the primary yardstick, we should (a) make it clear that that's the one we're using, and (b) therefore put it in a more prominent position, to the left of the Days column.
This also leaves the issue of why we calculate their lives in Days at all, if we never use that information for anything. JackofOz 03:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- I implemented my own recommendation (a), but another editor has now removed it. Back to square 1. I'll wait to what others have to say before taking any further action. JackofOz 11:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
