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A Problem Squared

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How to Calculate the Number of Days Between Dates

Bobby wanted a hilariously overqualified mathematicians to be dismissive. Professor Sir David Speichelter, who fully embraced the joke. He worked out that Michael Jackson was born on the 29th of August, 1958 and died on the 25th of June, 2009. And so he put those into Excel, subtract the one from the other, made sure I compensated for the extra day on the end. There were 18,562 days in between,. which is an even number, which means there's no like central day, like there's an even number of days. The video about this is on YouTube.

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