On 14/09/2011 05:56 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:46:15 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>>>> Well, yeah, but I don't bother watching those things. There's "trivia"
>>>> and then there's "on which day of the week was J. S. Bach born?"
>>>
>>> Wednesday. :)
>>
>> Well, there's a 14% chance you're right...
>>
>> (Or you just looked it up. Which you can't do on quiz shows, BTW.)
>
> There's a third option - I know the formula (yes, there is one) to
> determine the day of the week mentally - so not a guess, but a
> calculation.

That's no help; you'd still have to know the date.

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