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The Day of Week for any Date

Nature volume 74, page 271 (1906)Cite this article

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THE following method for finding the day of the week for any given date (new or Gregorian style) may interest your readers. We assign a number for each month in accordance with the old style, beginning with March, so that the last four months are numbered according to their Latin names, as follows:—

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    W. E. JOHNSON

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JOHNSON, W. The Day of Week for any Date. Nature 74, 271 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074271b0

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