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- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Calendar (NEW)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.165717.21567@mixcom.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:57:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mixcom.1992Aug27.165717.21567
- References: <2906@ucl-cs.uucp> <VICTOR.92Aug25094827@terse4.watson.ibm.com>
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- In <VICTOR.92Aug25094827@terse4.watson.ibm.com> victor@watson.ibm.com (Victor Miller) writes:
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- >For a nice treatment of all of these issues I would recommend looking
- >at the paper "Calendrical Calculations" by Ed Reingold in Software
- >Practice and Experience (sometime in the last year, I don't remember
- >the exact issue).
-
- Another good source of info, that goes directly to the mathematical
- manipulations without getting overly invlolved in the theory behind
- it all, is "Practical Astronomy With Your Calculator" by Peter Duffet
- Smith. Published by Cambridge University Press.
-
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- Kevin Jessup, bbwwbb@mixcom.mixcom.com
- "You've got to know when to code 'em, know when to load 'em, know when to
- emulate, know when to run. You never count your money, when your sittin' at
- the keyboard: there'll be time enough for countin', when the software's done."
-