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The same co-worker has a Lucite perpetual calendar on his desk. I asked him how many different calendar options it had. "Seven." "Doesn't it beggar belief th
by mjd 15y ago
The same co-worker has a Lucite perpetual calendar on his desk. I asked him how many different calendar options it had.
"Seven."
"Doesn't it beggar belief that one of those seven would only get used once every 800 years?"
- derleth 15y ago> "Seven." Sounds like it has precisely one setting for each day of the week January 1 can fall on, which isn't sufficient to uniquely identify each possible calendar. You need fourteen settings: Two for each day, one for normal years and one for leap years.
- mjd 15y agoIt's a one-month perpetual calendar, not a one-year perpetual calendar.