What is the intercalation cycle of the Jalali calendar?
33 years
25 years
50 years
100 years
Answer
Omar Khayyam designed the Jalali calendar, which has a very precise 33-year intercalation cycle. This solar calendar provided the basis for the Persian calendar that is still in use after nearly a millennium.
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