I have just realised a mistake in my validDate Function. The mistake is that it only validates the day and not the month or year, i also realised that it would validate the day even if the day is zero so I need to fix this. It was only when I was creating the Java …
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Zeller Java
The next evolution of this project is to eventually create a graphical user interface(GUI). This is possible to do using Python. But, I want to use Java for this job so recreating the work I have already done in Java is the way to go. So what’s first. The first thing is to write the …
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Valid Date
Another good function which would come in handy for Zeller is a function to make sure the date which was inputted is valid and display a message if the program has encountered an invalid date. For this function I will be using my inArray function which I wrote in a previous post. I will utilise …
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In Array
Something I am constantly wanting to do in a lot of programs is see if a value is in an array. For another function which I wish to write to add to the Zeller program this will come in handy. The basic algorithm looks like this: SET value TO RequiredValueSET array TO ArrayToSearchSET isIn TO …
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Factoral and Recursion
We all remember factorals from school but to remind us what they are, a factoral is the product of all the positive integers less than or equal to the initial number(n): For example: Strangely 0!=1 there is a mathematical proof which states why but I will not be expanding on it here, I will however …
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Zeller Congruence (The Program)
Now that we know that the algorithm works we can know build a solution We will start by adding code to perform the calculation for this we will need to import the Python math module so that we can use the built in floor function. We will also have to take into account the months …
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Zeller’s Congruence (The Algorithm)
When I started college in 1998, I was studying A-Level mathematics and was introduced to Zeller’s Algorithm. When I then started studying programming I though this would be a great algorithm to turn into a program(that program can be found here). I have been thinking about projects which I wish to put up on this …
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Zeller Pascal
It was my birthday this week so I got to thinking about one of my old Pascal Programs which was a program that used Zellers Algorithm or Congruence to calculate the day of the week from a given date. In this post all I wanted was to share my old Pascal program. In my next …
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Prime Numbers
Anyone that has studied secondary school mathematics knows what a prime number is but just to recap the definition of a prime number is any number which is only divisible by 1 and itself. 1 is however not a prime number as it is only divisible by itself, and other than 2 all prime numbers …
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Is Odd? or is Even?
In my last post I wrote a program to print the Collatz Conjecture for a particular number. In this program I had to check if the number is odd or not(even). For my next program I will need to do this check again so I have decided to write a very short function to check …
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