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First of all, I think you made a slight math error. Every leap year, we don't end up short. We end up ahead. The leap year system assumes that a year is 365.25 days long whereas the year is actual year is 365.242198781. See, the actual year is shorter than the year as our calendar puts it. So leap years are actually putting us ahead.
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Every leap year we do end up short. Since the actual year is shorter than the calender year, we start every year 11.23 minutes later than we should. Thus we get behind each year. Not taking a leap every so often like you said allows to "skip" a day and catch up to the actual year.
This is an interesting article on the leap year.
http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/tra...aris/leap.html