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#1 2013-03-25 00:32:13

ShivamS
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Registered: 2011-02-07
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Calculating day of the week

I recently saw videos of Arthur Benjaman (the "Mathemagician") and saw him calculate day of the week in 3 seconds given the date and month. I checked out Zeller's congruence and then found an algorithm which isextremely simple.
http://www.gregmiller.net/astro/dow.html

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#2 2014-12-12 00:10:58

DeanPemberton
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Registered: 2014-10-30
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Re: Calculating day of the week

Excellent. The formula in the site you have suggested is excellent, i have also tied to calculate some days of the weak and got succeed by the formula.
Thank for sharing. Now i can also calculate only in 3 minutes.

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