Calendrical Calculations

Calendrical Calculations
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 664
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ISBN-10 : 9781108548038
ISBN-13 : 1108548032
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Book Synopsis Calendrical Calculations by : Edward M. Reingold

Download or read book Calendrical Calculations written by Edward M. Reingold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists, astronomers, and other calendar enthusiasts, The Ultimate Edition updates and expands the previous edition to achieve more accurate results and present new calendar variants. The book now includes coverage of Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, and Babylonian calendars. There are also expanded treatments of the observational Islamic and Hebrew calendars and brief discussions of the Samaritan and Nepalese calendars. Several of the astronomical functions have been rewritten to produce more accurate results and to include calculations of moonrise and moonset. The authors frame the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form, allowing easy conversion among these calendars and the determination of secular and religious holidays. LISP code for all the algorithms is available in machine-readable form.


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