This Is Scary, but It Really Works

Enter a number in the first box, enter the year of your birth, then choose your birthday option. Click on RUN IT: The RESULT will appear below. (The lines marked * are informational only -- they only display the razmattazz behind this program.)

Try This Trick
Some Mathematician was really bored
How many days a week (1 through 7)
would you like to:
* Multiply by 2
* Add 5 to that
* Multiply by 50
Enter the Year of Your Birth (e.g., 1972)
Have you had your birthday yet this year?    yes     no
or  
This is the number of days you would like to indulge in your preferred activity
And This Is Your AGE

This will only work for this year (1998).
You can still click OK when you get an error message, but the results will be unpredictable (as life is).

** Another pointless web page from the folks at Fishenet **

[Math nuts: the only thing about this that makes it year-sensitive is the number assigned to the "have you had your birthday yet" line and your year of birth, so the "what is your age" result is really esoteric and is NOT based on the current date resident on your computer. The stuff about multiplying by 2 and adding 5, etc. is all flimflam, not that we understand how it works. This was programmed from written instructions about what to add, multiply, or whatever: (1) first of all pick the number of days in the week you would like to do xxx, (2) multiply this number by 2, (3) add 5, (4) multiply result by 50, (5) do a birthday adjustment by adding one of two secret numbers (which make this thing work), and (6) subtract your year of birth from the result. Given those instructions, you could do it all by hand, and in fact it is actually quicker than translating these instructions into bugless JavaScript. The JavaScript does the math, but why the math works is beyond me. But by the miracle of a JavaScript program that finally worked after hours of testing and changing, you don't need to know or bother! (Although I can think of many simpler ways for people to determine how old they are in 1998 -- for example, memory.)