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first, for practical use, I have come across a very simple way
to find the day of the week for any date of the current
year. This idea is so easy, that most of you will wonder why
you didn't think of it yourselves. This is it:—
All you have to do is memorize this twelve digit num-
ber:— 633752741631, the way you've been taught to do.
You can break the digits down into your peg words and
link them, or make up words to take in more than two digits
at a time. For example, you can remember this number by
making a link of these four words, chum, mug, linger and
dishmat. Once you have memorized the number, you can
tell the day of the week for any date of the year 1957! Each
digit in the number represents the first Sunday of the month
for one of the twelve months! The first Sunday in January
falls on the 6th of January; the first Sunday in February falls
on the 3rd of February; the first Sunday in March is the 3rd
of March; April 7th is the first Sunday in April; May 5th is
the first Sunday in May, and so on.
All right, so now you know the day of the month upon
which the first Sunday falls for each month. How can this
help you to know the day of the week for any date of the
current year? Simple! You wish to know the day of the week
for August 22nd, 1957—you know that the first Sunday of
August is the 4th of the month. Knowing this, your calcula-
tions are elementary. If the 4th is a Sunday, then the next
Sunday is the nth and the following Sunday, the 18th. The
18th is a Sunday, so the 19th is Monday, the 2oth is Tues-
day, the 21st is Wednesday, and, of course, August 22nd is a
Thursday!
Do you want to know the day of the week on which
Christmas falls this year (1957)? Well, thanks to the twelve
digit number, you know that the first Sunday of December
is the 1st of the month. Therefore the 8th must be a Sunday,
the 15th is a Sunday, and the 22nd is a Sunday. If the 22nd