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For people who don’t know, John H. Conway’s doomsday algorithm allows you to compute the day of the week for any date by starting from a set of memorable dates
by seanhunter 8mo ago
For people who don’t know, John H. Conway’s doomsday algorithm allows you to compute the day of the week for any date by starting from a set of memorable dates (called “doomsdays”) and working from there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
So for example doomsday for this year is a Saturday, so I know the last day in February is a Saturday (this Saturday in fact) and also that Independence Day, Boxing Day and Halloween are also going to be on Saturday this year, because they are all Doomsdays (on non-leap years).