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Gauss's Weekday Algorithm, Visualized


find the weekday of January 1st for any year Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), one of the greatest mathematicians in history, devised a compact formula to determine the weekday of January 1st for any given year. Found in a handwritten note among his papers, it was first published posthumously in 1927.

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