Re: TIB: TI-Basic Calender?
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Re: TIB: TI-Basic Calender?
OJ wrote:
>
> The anomolies you are referring to take place because of calender
> changes. In my old Comp. Sci. book, there was a program we had to make
> in order to tell something about which day easter occurred on, and the
> program had built in error handling for years that had unusual
> properties. Hope this helps.
>
> OJ
>
> Jody Snider wrote:
> >
> > ALURGEE@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > I am trying to get a program for my TI-83 that by entering a date, it
> > > determines the day of the week (example: by inputting 2/9/98, the program
> > > determines the date is a Saterday)
> > >
> > > I am sure this program has already been written. Do you know where/how I can
> > > get this program?
> > >
> > > Please email me all replies.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > alurgee@aol.com
> >
> > Interesting point. I tried something like this a while back, but I ran
> > into one big snag. Leap years. I can't remember everything, but
> > somewhere way back in the past and somewhere in the not so far future,
> > something happens that shouldn't. Like, I looked in the phone book at
> > the back where they have the calendars for all the years from 1900 to
> > 2025 - I think that was all the years - but there wasn't a _reliable_
> > pattern. There was something, I just can't remember what it was, that
> > made it impossible to come up with a reliable formula. I know that
> > there are simple programs for computers that will tell you what day you
> > were born and how many days you've been alive and stuff like that, but I
> > don't know how they operate.
> >
> > Jody Snider
> > jody1@alaska.net
Any ideas about what some of those anomolies are? More importantly, are
they predictable, and how do you adjust for them? I couldn't find any
pattern.
Jody Snider
jody1@alaska.net
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