Determination of the day of the week his adjustments for centuries are to be determined using formulas similar to those for the centuries table. Although explicit in asserting that his method also works for Old Style dates, his example reproduced below to determine that "1676, February 23" is a Wednesday only works on a Julian calendar which starts the year on January 1, instead of March 25 as on the "Old Style" Julian calendar. Algorithm: Take the given date in 4 portions, viz. the number of centuries, the number of years over, the month, the day of the month. Compute the following 4 items, adding each, when
Determination of the day of the week in the year row (07) is located in column G. The letter in the century row (13) and column G is E, so the day of the week is Friday. January 1 corresponds to G, G in the year row (00) corresponds to F in the century row (20), and F corresponds to Saturday. A pithy formula for the method: ""Date letter (G), letter (G) is in year row (00) for the letter (F) in century row (20), and for the day, the letter (F) become weekday (Saturday)"". Use 17 (in the Gregorian century row, column C) and 83 (in