Dr Maths.(News)

From: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) | Date: January 4, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: By Steve Humble

Dear Dr Maths

Is there a formula which would allow you to work out the day of the week on which someone was born?

CATHY, Gosforth

There is a formula which even takes into account leap years. The basic theory for this was created by the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss in the early 1800s.

Gauss had the colossal ability to be able to find order and pattern in vast amounts of data.

There is ...

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