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Challenge #258: Relatively Old

AYXAcademy
Alteryx
Alteryx

A solution to last week's challenge can be found here258graphic.png

 

This week's challenge focuses on a group of relatives and their birthdays. Of the six family members, we have one person's date of birth and a series of clues to calculate the others. Provide the DOB for all family members and the day of the week s/he was born.

Aaron_Harter
11 - Bolide

Great start to the week with algebra & DateTime functions!

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Luke_C
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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Blake
12 - Quasar

Fun with the datetime functions!

 

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Kenda
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula
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PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

My days until Friday calc.. not sure if it's correct..

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7 - mod(tonumber(DateTimeformat([Date], '%u')) + 2, 7)

 

 

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DeanWest
9 - Comet

Interesting word problem to practice some DateTime functions!

 

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jamielaird
14 - Magnetar

Voilà mon solution:

 

 

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patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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I used DateTimeAdd a lot...
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Spalders
8 - Asteroid
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