The Days Of The Week

No, no, no, I’m not talking about the SCTV soap opera The Days of the Week although it’s pretty funny. Quick, what day of the week is August 24, 2026? Monday! Er, yeah, it’s today, I kind of knew that, but want if you got a slightly harder question? What day is October 12, 2026? Uh…. There are patterns, and you can do a little simple arithmetic in your head and figure out the day of the week for almost any date. Practice, and it’ll just take a few seconds! Here’s how! An algorithm by the famous mathematician John Horton Conway gives us a nifty way! Here’s how Conway’s Doomsday Rule goes - There’s a special day for the year, called the Doomsday, and for 2026, it happens to be Saturday. You memorize this tidbit. You also memorize a few days that are always the same day as the Doomsday, one for each month, and you work forward and backward from there. For instance, 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10 and 12/12 are always the same day of the week - and in 2026, they’re all Saturdays. So October 12th…