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Calculating Easter

It is possible to caclulate every year's easter using simple
mathematical operations. Here is a code that does the trick:

http://www.brlivre.org/c/easter.c

I found the math scheme in an american scientific issue, march
2001. The article about the calendars is very interesting.

Have fun...
--
Gustavo G. Rondina
http://gustgr.freeshell.org
Nov 14 '05 #1
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Gustavo G. Rondina wrote:
It is possible to caclulate every year's easter using simple
mathematical operations. Here is a code that does the trick:

http://www.brlivre.org/c/easter.c

I found the math scheme in an american scientific issue, march
2001. The article about the calendars is very interesting. cat easter.c // Calculating Easter

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

static const
char *month_array[] = {
"January", "February", "March",
"April", "May", "June",
"July", "August", "September",
"October", "November", "December" };

typedef struct Date {
int year;
int month;
int day;
} Date;

inline static
Date Date_create(int year, int month, int day) {
Date d;
d.year = year;
d.month = month;
d.day = day;
return d;
}

inline static
void Date_destroy(const Date* p) {
}

Date easter(int x) {

int a = x%19;
int b = x/100;
int c = x%100;
int h = (19*a + b - (b/4) - (8*b + 13)/25 + 15)%30;
int m = (a + 11*h)/319;
int l = (2*(b%4) + 2*(c/4) - c%4 - h + m + 32)%7;
int n = (h - m + l + 90)/25;
int p = (h - m + l + n + 19)%32;

return Date_create(x, n - 1, p);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int year; /* year to determine easter */

if (argc == 1) {
printf("Year: ");
scanf("%d", &year);
}
else
year = atoi(argv[1]);

Date d = easter(year);
printf("Easter %d is %s %d.\n",
d.year, month_array[d.month], d.day);
Date_destroy(&d);

return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
gcc -Wall -std=c99 -pedantic -o easter easter.c
./easter 2004

Easter 2004 is April 11.
Nov 14 '05 #2
E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
Gustavo G. Rondina wrote:
It is possible to caclulate every year's easter using simple
mathematical operations. Here is a code that does the trick:
<snip> char *month_array[] = {
"January", "February", "March",
"April", "May", "June",
"July", "August", "September",
"October", "November", "December" };


Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25. So why the
redundant code?
Nov 14 '05 #3

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