Olympiad Olympiad An Olympiad (, "Olympiás") is a period of four years associated with the Olympic Games of the Ancient Greeks. During the Hellenistic period, beginning with Ephorus, it was used as a calendar epoch. Converting to the modern BC/AD dating system the first Olympiad began in the summer of 776 BC and lasted until the summer of 772 BC, when the second Olympiad would begin with the commencement of the next games. By extrapolation to the Gregorian calendar, the 3rd year of the ((2019+779)/4 -.5)round 0th Olympiad began in (Northern-Hemisphere) mid-summer 2019. A modern Olympiad refers to a four-year period
Return period interest and formula_5 is the counting rate. If the return period of occurrence is 1 in 234 years (formula_5 = 0.0043) then the probability of no occurrence in ten years is In a given period of "n" years, the probability of a given number "r" of events of a return period formula_5 is given by the binomial distribution as follows. In the limit of :formula_11, such that formula_12 then Take where Given that the return period of an event is 100 years, So the probability that such an event occurs "exactly once" in 10 successive years is: Return period is