Methods for Accelerating Conway's Doomsday Algorithm (part 1)

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2010-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/1006.3913v8

Computer Science

Data Structures and Algorithms

added references to Lewis Carroll's early work on a perpetual calendar algorithm

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We propose a modification of a key component in the Doomsday Algorithm for calculating the day of the week of any calendar date. In particular, we propose to replace the calculation of the required term: \lfloor \frac{x}{12} \rfloor + x \bmod 12 + \lfloor \frac{x \bmod 12}{4} \rfloor with the term 2y + 10 \, (y \bmod 2) + z + \lfloor \frac{2 \, (y \bmod 2) + z}{4} \rfloor where x is an input 2-digit year; y is the tens digit of x; z is the ones digit of x; We argue the fact that our modification operates on individual base-10 digits makes the algorithm easier to calculate mentally.

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