On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > Ooohhh!! I like it!
> > I never _could_ remember that damn rhyme. Fists I understand.
>
> Yep -- I got taught the knuckle calendar in third grade and I never forgot
> it. People think it's funny when they see me counting months on my hand,
> though. :-)
Jeez, I never knew it took so much effort to remember what months had
however many days. I must be some idiot savant or something for being
able to just know this off-hand.
It's also not difficult to know what years are leap years if you spent any
time at all when you were younger writing up calendar programs in BASIC on
your first computer.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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