Calculating the day of the week

This article details a mathematical algorithm to calculate the day of the week for any particular date in the past or future. There are a number of other algorithms to do this, including, for example, the Doomsday Algorithm, but they are all variants of each other, simply using different rules to achieve the same result.

Related Topics:
Algorithm - Day - Week - Past - Future - Doomsday Algorithm

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A typical application is to calculate the day of the week on which someone was born or some other special event occurred.

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