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Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)
A letter from Lewis Carroll to Nature, March 31, 1887: Having hit upon the following method of mentally computing the day of the week for any given date, I send it you in the hope that it may interest some of your readers. I am not a rapid computer myself, and as I find my average time for doing any such question is…
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Math & AlgorithmsHistory & Retro Computing2024
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| May 24, 2024 | Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887) by beardyw | 199 | 101 |
