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Calendrical Calculations - Nachum Dershowitz
Cambridge University Press (2007)
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Calendar - Mathematics

This new edition of the popular calendars book expands the treatment of the previous edition to new calendar variants: generic cyclical calendars and astronomical lunar calendars as well as the Korean, Vietnamese, Aztec, and Tibetan calendars. As interest grows in the impact of seemingly arbitrary calendrical systems upon our daily lives, this book frames the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form. Easy conversion among these calendars is a by-product of the approach, as is the determination of secular and religious holidays. Calendrical Calculations makes accurate calendrical algorithms readily available for computer use with LISP and Java code for all the algorithms available on the Web. This book is a valuable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists. In addition, the lay reader will find the historical setting and general calendar descriptions of great interest.

Product Details
LoC Classification CE12 .D473 2008
Dewey 529.3
Format Hardcover
Cover Price 90,00 €
No. of Pages 512
Height x Width 236 x 157 mm