fasano@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Cathy Fasano) (06/23/91)
I have this vague memory of seeing somewhere on the net an algorithm
for calculating the date of Easter in any particular year. Of course
I know about "the first Sunday after the first full moon after the
vernal equinox", but I don't, in general, know the dates of full moons,
so that's not very useful.
I need to calculate the date of Good Friday (a market holiday in Europe
and America) in arbitrary years, and I thought an algorithm would be
better than a table. I figured s.r.c. readers would be just the kind
of folks who would know this kind of thing!
Please email any replies...
A multitude of thanks in advance,
cathy :-)
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Cathy Fasano
aka: Cathy Johnston, fasano@unix.cis.pitt.edu
cathy@gargoyle.uchicago.bitnet, uunet!unix.cis.pitt.edu!fasano
"If there's no solution, then it isn't a problem." -- Evening Shade
[We just got finished with a discussion of the algorithm, which I
don't want to restart, but it's true that the result was an algorithm
that most of us would find it hard to program. Any suggestions for
somebody who actually wanted to code it? --clh]