Calendar algorithms

Determination of the day of the week

The determination of the day of the week for any date may be performed with a variety of algorithms. In addition, perpetual calendars require no calculation by the user, and are essentially lookup tables.A typical application is to calculate the day of the week on which someone was born or a specific event occurred. (Wikipedia).

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Teach Astronomy - Days of the Week

http://www.teachastronomy.com/ Every human culture has felt the need to subdivide time. In addition to the seasons, which follow from the Earth's motion around the sun, and months, which are tied to the lunar cycle, almost every culture has divided time into weeks. "Week" comes from the o

From playlist 02. Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Phenomena

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Challenge: What Day Is It?

#shorts This video provides an logic example of how to determine what day of the week is begin described.

From playlist Math Shorts

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How Drunk People Invented The Weekend

Episode 2 of 4 Check us out on iTunes! http://testtube.com/podcast Please Subscribe! http://testu.be/1FjtHn5 When Sunday began to be a day of enjoyment instead of religion, employers decided to compromise with workers by giving them an extra day off to recuperate. + + + + + + + + Prev

From playlist How We Started Keeping Track Of Time

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Calculate When New Years Occurs (The Day Of The Week) Until 2099!

January 1, 2015 is a Thursday. When will New Years Day be in 2017? You can do this in your head! Follow-up video - calculating the day of the week from a date https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsStBxY9STw Calculating the day of the week for any date (by Grey Matters) http://gmmentalgym.blo

From playlist Mental Math Tricks

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How Math Can Tell You the Day of the Week for Any Date in History

With a dash of math, know the day of the week for any date on the calendar. The calendar is a mathematical object with regular patterns, such as leap years happening every four years. This results in your birthday increasing by one or two days as you go from one year to the next in a very

From playlist Original shorts

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Day of the Week Puzzle

This video explains how to determine what day it is based upon the days residents of a town tell the truth or tell a lie.

From playlist Mathematics General Interest

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Exponential Decay App (y=ab^t) - Find Initial Amount Given Half Life

This video explains how to determine an exponential function in the form y=ab^t that models decay based upon given information. Then given a decayed amount, it shows how to find what the initial amount was. Site: http://mathispower4u.com Blog: http://mathispower4u.wordpress.com

From playlist Solving Applications of Exponential Growth and Decay

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Team 2854 High Tech HS presentation 2014

In Moody's Mega Math Challenge 2014, more than 5,000 high school students across the U.S. set out to determine what makes a school lunch easy on the stomach...and the wallet. Participants pored over data, crunched numbers, and used mathematical analysis to determine how school lunches can

From playlist M3 Challenge 2014 Team Presentations

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Find Initial Amount and Amount After Time From Half-Life (y=ae^(kt))

This video explains how to use half-life to determine an initial amount and an amount after time t.

From playlist Solving Applications of Exponential Growth and Decay

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Team 3374 Arsenal Technical HS presentation 2014

In Moody's Mega Math Challenge 2014, more than 5,000 high school students across the U.S. set out to determine what makes a school lunch easy on the stomach...and the wallet. Participants pored over data, crunched numbers, and used mathematical analysis to determine how school lunches can

From playlist M3 Challenge 2014 Team Presentations

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This is What my First Engineering Job was Like

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From playlist Electrical Engineering

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Linear Programming

This precalculus video tutorial provides a basic introduction into linear programming. It explains how to write the objective function and constraints of linear programming word problems. It discusses how to find all of the corner points including the point of intersection where you have

From playlist New Precalculus Video Playlist

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Do We Need to Work 40 Hours a Week?

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From playlist Case Studies

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Team 3379 NC School Sci And Math presentation 2014

In Moody's Mega Math Challenge 2014, more than 5,000 high school students across the U.S. set out to determine what makes a school lunch easy on the stomach...and the wallet. Participants pored over data, crunched numbers, and used mathematical analysis to determine how school lunches can

From playlist M3 Challenge 2014 Team Presentations

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The Medieval Calendar

The medieval calendar served as a map of the Church year. While following the method of the Roman calendar in determining dates, it also listed saints' days and other religious feasts and recorded the phases of the moon. Many calendars also featured related illustrations of saints, feasts,

From playlist Art of Medieval Europe | Art History | Khan Academy

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Chapter 9.3: Hypothesis Tests for Two Proportions (print v.11102014 and older)

Chapter 9.3 from "Introduction to Statistics, Think & Do" by Scott Stevens (http://www.StevensStats.com) Textbook from Publisher, $29.95 print, $9.95 PDF http://www.centerofmathematics.com/wwcomstore/index.php/thinkdov4-1.html Textbook from Amazon: https://amzn.to/2zJRCjL This corresp

From playlist Statistics Lecture Videos

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Calculate The Day Of The Week For Any Date Until 2099

January 1, 2015 is a Thursday. When will Christmas be in 2015? You can do this in your head! Doomsday Rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule Calculating the day New Years (1/1) occurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iZ1TlqcqVc More efficient methods for determining a year's Do

From playlist Mental Math Tricks

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