On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:49:02 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> 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.

True, and you could have memorised that.

Jim

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