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
Determination of the day of the week enter a self-contained function for converting a Gregorian date into a numerical day of the week. It preserves neither y nor d, and returns 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, etc. Shortly afterwards, Hans Lachman streamlined their algorithm for ease of use on low-end devices. As designed originally for four-function calculators, his method needs fewer keypad entries by limiting its range either to A.D. 1905-2099, or to historical Julian dates. It was later modified to convert any Gregorian date, even on an abacus. On Motorola 68000-based devices, there is similarly less need of either processor registers or opcodes, depending on