COOL THINGS: HOW TO FIGURE
OUT THE DAY OF THE WEEK YOU WERE BORN
IT WORKS FOR ANY DATE FROM 1900 TO 1999. FROM 2000 ON . . . SEE " IV." BELOW.
1)
2)
To do it . . . you need a pen or pencil, paper and a calculator.
Each month and each day of the week has the following secret code number:
January
February
March
April
May
June
3)
STEPS:
1
2
3
4
1
4
4
0
2
5
July
August
September
October
November
December
0
3
6
1
4
6
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
1
2
4
5
6
7
7
8
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OK, let's say you were born May 23, 1995.
Take the last two digits of the year . . .
Multiply it by 5 . . .
Divide that number by 4 . . .
Get rid of the decimal point and all the numbers
to the right of the decimal point . . .
Note: If there is no decimal point you were born
in a leap year . . . skip this step.
Add the month code. Look at the chart, the month
code for May is 2 . . .
Add the date. In this case, it is 23...
Use your calculator and divide by 7 . . .
5
Thursday
Friday
* Saturday
95 × 5 =
475 ÷ 4 =
95
475
118.75
118.75 =
118
118 + 2 =
120
120 + 23 =
143 ÷ 7 =
143
20.428571
Look at the first number to the right of the decimal point in Step 7. It is 4. Go to the chart and you see
that 4 is a Tuesday. So, if you were born on May 23, 1995 you were born on a Tuesday.
If there is no decimal after Step 7, you were born on a Saturday *.
The only time this does not work exactly as above is . . . if you were born in January or February of a
leap year. In that case, you were born one day earlier than the pattern. Example: If you were born in
say January, 1992 (a leap year) and you figured out from the steps that you were born on a Thursday,
you were actually born on a Wednesday.
4)
Beginning with the year 2000 you need to add 100 to the number in Step 1. Let's say you were born June
17, 2003 . . . take the last two digits of the year, which is 03 and add 100 to it and you have 103. Then
follow the rest of the steps exactly as indicated above.
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