frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter) (01/25/89)
A short while ago somebofy posted a short routine to compute the current
phase of the moon. I thought that a MOON command would make an amusing
addition to our BBS so with a couple extra lines of code to translate the
output of 0->7 to an english message I put it in.
As I should have expected this tiny command generated lots of interest and
the BBS users seem to agree that the 8 phase resolution is just not good
enough (for what?).
I had a look at the code but do not understand it well enough to change this.
Does anyone have a routine that computes the number of days since the last
new moon? While we're at it, how about one that calculates tides?
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Frank I. Reiter \ / UUCP: {uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!rsoft!frank
Langley, British Columbia / \ BBS: Mind Link @ (604)533-2312
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