A Further Account of the Idiots Savants, Experts with the Calendar
WILLIAM A. HORWITZ M.D.,
W. EDWARDS DEMING PH.D.1, , and
ROBERT F. WINTER PH.D.2
1 Consultant in statistical surveys, 4924 Butterworth P1., N. W. Washington, D. C. 20016
2 Associate professor of statistics, New York University
The authors present a further account of twins, classifiable as idiots savants, whose ability to name the day of the week for a given date in any year, and the converse, has led to conjecture on the mechanism by which they perform the feat. Their method is explained as the ability to subtract multiples of a 400-year calendar cycle from any given year.
