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Default WEEKNUM() Question

The results of WEEKNUM() don't correspond with the calendaring system I
want.

My first question is simple: How does the WEEKNUM() algorithm work? If I
can figure out what it's based on, I can probably match it to the calendar
I'm using. It looks like it's anywhere from 1 day off to 2 days off from my
calendar, depending on when my week decides to start.

The calendar I have starts on Mondays and assigns WEEK-1 to the first week
of January with at least 4 days in it. So if WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR,1,1),2) is 5
(Friday) or greater, then the week doesn't start until WEEKDAY() yields 1.
This means that up to first 4 days of January would be considered WK 52 (or
53).

I started to wonder if there was a better way to do it, when my formula
started approaching 150 characters, and I still hadn't accounted for the WK
53 case or leap year. I've never built my own function, but something tells
me it would be the cleanest way to do it.

I have a pdf of about 15 years worth, if anyone is interested in taking a
look. Since it's .5MB, I won't try to attach it.
<http://www.capeyork.us/data/Calendar.pdf.

Thanks in advance to the first "smart-guy" to help me out. I've been hoping
to make time to figure this out for quite a while now.

 
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