Calendrical Calculations
The Ultimate Edition
4th Edition
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- Authors:
- Edward M. Reingold, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Nachum Dershowitz, Tel-Aviv University
- Date Published: April 2018
- availability: In stock
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107683167
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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.
Read more- Has general appeal across computer science and beyond
- Includes LISP code in machine-readable form for all the algorithms
- Now includes Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, and Babylonian calendars and calculations of moonrise and moonset
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'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
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×Product details
- Edition: 4th Edition
- Date Published: April 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107683167
- length: 662 pages
- dimensions: 233 x 157 x 31 mm
- weight: 1.11kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. Calendar basics
Part I. Arithmetical Calendars:
2. The Gregorian calendar
3. The Julian calendar
4. The Coptic and Ethiopic calendars
5. The ISO calendar
6. The Icelandic calendar
7. The Islamic calendar
8. The Hebrew calendar
9. The Ecclesiastical calendars
10. The old Hindu calendars
11. The Mayan calendars
12. The Balinese Pawukon calendar
13. Generic Cyclical calendars
Part II. Astronomical Calendars:
14. Time and astronomy
15. The Persian calendar
16. The Bahá'à calendar
17. The French Revolutionary calendar
18. Astronomical Lunar calendars
19. The Chinese calendar
20. The modern Hindu calendars
21. The Tibetan calendar
Part III. Appendices: A. Function, parameter, and constant types
B. Cross references
C. Sample data
D. Lisp implementation.-
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