Re: TIB: TI-Basic Calender?
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Re: TIB: TI-Basic Calender?
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
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