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#1 2012-06-25 04:59:40

John E. Franklin
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six day week question

If we start with Tuesday, December 25th, 2001 and
work our way up to June 24th, Sunday, 2012,
are these two dates exactly some multiple of six days
apart?  I calculate that if you count out six day weeks
(instead of seven) from that xmas day to now, you will
find that yesterday, or Sunday, June 24th 2012 falls
on this six-day pattern. 

If someone can verify my work, that would be nice of you if you have the time.

Here are two pieces of data that I used: 364 = 7 x 52 and 6 x 61 = 366
leap years on feb 29 make 366 day years and 2004, 2008 and 2012 were leap years since 2001.

Thanks a lot, everyone.


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#2 2012-06-25 05:04:35

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Re: six day week question

This site confirms it.

3834 days = 6 * 639.

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#3 2012-06-26 03:36:55

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Re: six day week question

Thanks a bunch!! crls -Jhn
Just so you know why I'm doing this, I created an eight day week and a six day week and I have
them in my calendar on my phone so just for fun but I just found the old notecard I started the
six day week on in a drawer full of decade old things, but the eight-day week I just started
back on March 31 of 2012.  It turns out they never meet each other, the 8 and the 6, they pass
by each other every 24 days though. 
Thanks again!!


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#4 2012-06-26 03:39:24

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Re: six day week question

If I had started the 8-day week one day left or right from where i did, they probably would meet every 24 days I think, but that is not how my setup goes.  My setup creates an interesting pattern though with blocks or squares of four on the calendar connected by short diagonals dots.


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#5 2012-06-26 07:41:21

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Re: six day week question

Can you post a pic of this?

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#6 2012-07-03 15:07:53

John E. Franklin
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Re: six day week question

my internet is shaky...  can't connect for long... see you in a few years when technology improves out here in the sticks...


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#7 2012-07-03 15:20:29

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Re: six day week question

Hi JEF

Haven't talked to you in a while. How have you been? How are you doing with French? smile


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#8 2012-07-03 20:17:23

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Re: six day week question

Hi John;

Whats cooking?


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#9 2012-07-04 03:26:35

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Re: six day week question

ooh la la, oui, je parle un peu francais avec quelqu'un en ville.
(Wow, yes, I speak a little French with someone in town)
Hi bbbm: My latest purchase are some iron rings to hold in my hands and flex my wrists back and forth
when I walk for hours at the YMCA.  The iron rings will arrive from China in a week.  They are light, just
1 lb 9 oz. each and 5 inches in diameter.
I am also losing fat, I lost 3 to 7 lbs in the last two months depending where you start from, but let's just
say I'm at a lower weight and reached a 3 year low last week at a few weighings.
Oh, I eat only seafood, fish, and veges, and carbs, bread, eggs, basically anything, but I have
successfully avoided eating land animals such as cows (vaches) and pigs (cochons) and poultry (vollaile?)
in the continuous past 5 or 6 weeks!! 
Internet is sketchy though...


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#10 2012-07-04 03:30:10

bobbym
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Re: six day week question

Hi John E. Franklin;

Very good! Apparently your hand is fine. All that walking is sure to take tons off of you. Give you a lot of time to think, to be with yourself.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#11 2012-07-04 03:36:29

John E. Franklin
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Re: six day week question

bbbm:  Congrats on your new appointment here.  I like the title!!  Does this mean anything I should know such as the health of our beloved RPMF.


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#12 2012-07-04 03:43:41

bobbym
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Re: six day week question

RPMF? You got me!


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#13 2012-07-04 03:57:33

John E. Franklin
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Re: six day week question

HappyJulyFourth
Tomorrow the fifth will be an 8-day, and then the 6th or friday will be a 6-day (now back on this thread's topic).
The week after that the TH and FR swap places as 6day preceeds 8day, forming a block pattern on the calendar:
TH8 FR6
TH6 FR8


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