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Calendrical Calculations

The Ultimate Edition

Nachum Dershowitz author Edward M Reingold author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:5th Apr '18

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These algorithmic tools for programmers, astronomers, and calendar enthusiasts include more than forty calendars and astronomical functions.

This unique resource now includes coverage of Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, Babylonian, Samaritan, and Nepalese calendars, plus expanded treatments of Islamic and Hebrew calendars. The astronomical functions have been rewritten for more accurate results and include calculations of moonrise and moonset.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.

'It retains all the features that made the first edition … such a wonderful resource, while adding much new material … If you are at all interested in time and calendars, this book must find a place on your desk.' Victor J. Katz, Mathematical Reviews

ISBN: 9781107057623

Dimensions: 241mm x 161mm x 32mm

Weight: 1220g

660 pages

4th Revised edition