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Is there a way to work out on a calculator how many days there are between:
13 June 2012 and 24 March 2013 inclusive?
13 June 2012 and 24 March 2013 inclusive?
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Yes I'm aware of the web based platforms that do this but I want to be able to work it out on a calculator.
Indeed, but there may be some sort of a formula to enable a calculation on a calculator, no?
No.
Your calculator won't know how many days in each moth, you will need to provide that information. You can use the calculator to subtract the dates you are looking at from total days in the month.
You can do date subtractions on Excel.
In theory - yes.
The answer is no. Calculators do not have calendar information built in.
edit: Apart from that Sharp one^^
This is useful and will consider buying it however I want to be able to calculate it on my own basic calculator.
Good save!:p
No doubt but as I say - I want to be able to do it on a calculator.
There's a math calc. for everything I was once told...
http://www.dotnetperls.com/datetime-elapsed
There will be a VB equivalent but I won't sully my reputation by linking to it
but you won't find a nice simple days =sqrt(days*30)/pi formula
...there's always one
I will deploy my stock answer which is: the abbreviation maths is preferred in the UK and the abbreviation math is preferred in the USA; both are equally correct. #etymology
You can use a calculator to work it out semi-manually; add up the days in the intervening months: then add the days from 13th to end of June (17) and from start of March to 24th (24), giving 284 days.
If you can work out the days to the start of each month in a year, that makes things easier, but you need to prepare a lookup table: So for 13-June-2012, that is day # 152+13 or 165, and for 24-March-2013 it's day # 59+24 or 83. (Some diaries will give you this day number directly.) Now you're comparing years and days: To do the calculation, however, you need to normalise the day numbers, that is, make them refer to the start of the same year. With this example, convert the 83 to the number of days from the start of 2012, by adding the number of days in 2012 (366 as it was a leap year), which makes it 83+366 or 449. The calculation is now 449-165 or 284 days.
We didn't do math at school, but from my maths lessons I know the difference between an expression and a formula. Calculators deal in expressions.
Whose opinion differs from yours? You'll be lucky if there's only one.
One is correct in the UK, the other is correct in the US. I've no idea what the last # and word means.