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I once saw this person on TV and he was very adamant that he does NOT perform these feats by calculating. (This article states that he does it by calculating.) Mr. Serrell just knows what day of the week a certain date was. (I also believe, although it's not in this article, that this ability doesn't apply to dates earlier than some critical date which was somewhere around the time of the accident. If he performs these feats by calculating in the manner of John Conway, he would be able to go back decades before his accident.) He may just have a prodigious memory, not a calculational ability. To illustrate the difference, think of someone looking at a plate with five candies on it and announcing there are five of the candies without counting them, because they can just "see", in one image, that there are five. The same person confronted with a tray on which are jumbled 23 candies (not arranged in any shape that makes it easier, but, rather, just randomly arranged) will have to count them to announce the quantity. Even if they have a photographic memory and can store the image in their head after seeing it for only 1 second (not enough time to count them for most people), they could announce the quantity only by counting the candies in their remembered image of the plate, something that is not necessary when there are only 5 candies. But some people can "just see" that there are 23 candies (without counting them) the way that almost all people can see that there are 5 candies without counting. Orlando Serrell's abilities with knowing the weekday of dates (and the weather) may be something like an analogue. Perhaps he is doing what you and I are doing when we remember that the 12th last week was on Wednesday without counting back on our fingertips, but he's just able to do it going back decades, not merely weeks like most people.~2026-40300-76 (talk) 19:23, 22 July 2026 (UTC)Christopher Lawrence SimpsonReply
