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From: ken@chinook.halcyon.com (Ken Pizzini)
Subject: Re: language wars (results 13 September) last posting
Date: 1996/09/21
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Reposting article removed by rogue canceller.

In article <32414A27.14E@cat.com>, Daniel J. Long <longdj@cat.com> wrote:
>Ok, here is my program, written in Smalltalk, to calculate the
>distribution
>of Friday the 13ths for a 2800 year period from 1996 to 4795.  BTW,
>Friday did
>turn out to be the most likely 13th.
...
>| anArray |
>anArray := Array new: 7 withAll: 0.
>1996 to: 4795 do: [:year |
>	1 to: 12 do: [:month | | day |
>		day := (Date newDay: 13 monthNumber: month year: year) weekdayIndex.
>		anArray at: day put: ((anArray at: day) + 1)]].
>anArray inspect
>
>Result:  Mon  Tues Wed  Thur Fri  Sat  Sun
>       #(4795 4795 4809 4788 4816 4788 4809)

What is the impentation of Date and/or weekdayIndex?  I think this shows
that at least one of them has a bug...

		--Ken Pizzini