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January 2

Richard Helm birth date

What is the birth date and location of Richard Helm (author/computer scientist/IT professional who wrote Design Patterns...)? I've looked all over but can't seem to find it anywhere. A good source for this would also be appreciated. --Nerd1a4i (talk) 16:24, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Added a title and a link. Rojomoke (talk) 21:24, 1 January 2017 (UTC) [reply]

Bad phone calls

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Tevildo (talk) 12:00, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is really a question about how to handle alleged inappropriate behavior by a Wikipedia editor, so it seems to me that we should refer the requester to the appropriate part of Wikipedia. However, I'm not sure what that would be. John M Baker (talk) 21:46, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The post was pure trolling, by a banned user. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:57, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, WP:OWH is the appropriate link. Tevildo (talk) 23:22, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It would be, if the complaint was legitimate, which it wasn't. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:39, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well then, what's the appropriate place for illegitimate complaints? (Asking for a friend.) —Tamfang (talk) 01:56, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The circular file. μηδείς (talk) 02:37, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Or better yet, "where the moon don't shine" (to quote Dick Cavett).[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:19, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rose Parade on Monday, January 2

Since January 1 this year is a Sunday, the Rose Parade is held on Monday, January 2, instead. How often does January 1 fall on a Sunday? How many times does January 1 fall on a Sunday in 400 Gregorian years? What about the 6-year difference between 1899 and 1905 due to 1900 not being a leap year, between 2096 and 2102 due to 2100 not being a leap year, and the 7-year difference between 2197 and 2204 due to 2200 not being a leap year? GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 16:37, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Perpetual calendar might be a good place to start. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:18, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

One that I use is this:[2] In recent years, January 1 fell on a Sunday in 2012, 2006, 1995, 1989, 1984, 1978, 1967 and 1961. That's 8 times in 56 years (starting 1962), or average once every 7 years, which is not too surprising. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:20, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a program "count" that will produce a list of consecutive numbers (I think this is built-in on some systems, but I use my own that I wrote, so I don't know about that), all you need to do is:

     for year in `count 2000 2399`
        do
        cal 1 $year
        done | grep ' 1 ' | sort -r | uniq -c

The output is:

    58  1  2  3  4  5  6  7 
    56     1  2  3  4  5  6 
    58        1  2  3  4  5 
    57           1  2  3  4 
    57              1  2  3 
    58                 1  2 
    56                    1

So in the 400-year Gregorian cycle, January 1 is on Sunday 58 times, Monday 56 times, and so on.

(If you don't have a "count" program, you could insert some awk or perl instead, e.g.: for year in `perl -e 'print join(" ", 2000..2399)'`

--69.159.60.210 (talk) 19:54, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

When I try it on MacBSD, the last line is missing, because cal doesn't do trailing spaces. —Tamfang (talk) 01:53, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]