Licht mystical union of Sunday prepares the way for the new life of Monday. "In this way there is neither end nor beginning to the week. It is an eternal spiral" . Each opera is composed from an elaborated form of the corresponding day-segment of the superformula, made by superimposing one or more complete lines from the superformula, compressed to the length of the day-segment. These are named for the day in question (e.g., "Mittwoch-Formel".) The separate acts and scenes often involve further superimpositions of formula material. For example, "Luzifers Traum", the first scene of "Samstag", has a total of five
Determination of the day of the week January 1, 2000. (year − 1 for January) formula_3 formula_4 Note: The first is only for a 00 leap year and the second is for any 00 years. The term mod 7 gives the values of months: The term mod 7 gives the values of years: The term mod 7 gives the values of centuries: Now from the general formula: formula_5; January 1, 2000 can be recalculated as follows: formula_6 formula_7 Kraitchik proposed two methods for calculating the day of the week. One is a graphical method. The other uses a formula that he credits to Gauss on p. 110: