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This poem is such bullshit. You can substitute loads of other months and make it very wrong: Thirty Days hath December, March, July and November, All the res

• ternaryoperator 12y ago
  Of course, if you change the poem that gives you the correct number of days per month, then you won't get the right answer. That doesn't make the correct poem "bullshit."
  • Dylan16807 12y ago
    It means that the poem is not very resilient. It's pretty easy to misremember.
• grayclhn 12y ago
  Yes, like most poems, this is one that you're better off remembering than trying to reconstruct on the fly.
  • smorrow 12y ago
    For me it's that the odd-numbered nomths have 31 days, and the even-numbered ones have less, in the first half of the year, and vice versa for the second half. That's better than the poem in that you can't mix it up, AND it's faster than audiating all of that.
    • grayclhn 12y ago
      As with most algorithms, there are trade-offs :). An advantage of the poem is that it can be learned by small children. I disagree that your approach can't be mixed up... I'm still trying to figure out what nomth is so I can implement it ;) I certainly wouldn't recommend my usual approach though: alternate 31/"not 31" starting from October (Halloween is the 31st) or March (my birthday is close enough to the end of the month for me to remember that March has 31 days.)
      • JadeNB 12y ago
        > I'm still trying to figure out what nomth is so I can implement it A 'nomth' is a month in which a feast occurs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feasts_of_Jesus_Christ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feasts_of_Jesus_Christ).