Gauss's Weekday Algorithm, Visualized
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- Carl Friedrich Gauss created a formula to find the weekday of January 1st for any year.
- The formula was found in his handwritten notes and published posthumously in 1927.
- It is valid from 1583 onward, the first full year of the Gregorian calendar.