Re: DATE are odd or EVEN

["Larry E. Havard" <LarryH@HAVARD.COM>]

I was the original poster and here is my take on a slow Friday.

There are more Odd days than Even.  ALL months start with a odd day.  Not
all month end with a even day.

Because you have months that end in 31 and the new month starts with 1 you
have 2 odd days.
You Never have 2 even days in a row therefore logic says there have to be
more odd days than even

Now you could set up a excel sheet to prove it, but I think the logic is
sound enough.




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-----Original Message-----
From: MS Excel General Q & A List [mailto:EXCEL-G@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM] On
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: DATE are odd or EVEN

An academic curiosity. Hey, It's Friday. . .

The original poster was clear about wanting the oddness or evenness of the
day of month but, in a more general sense, are there more odd or more even
days? In a year? In a month? In a millennium?

After all the number of odd integers is equal to the number of even
integers, isn't it? Or does that depend on whether the computer uses ones or
twos complement arithmetic?

Does the answer depend on the leap year formula?

Dates are curious objects.

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