Nachum Dershowitz en Edward M. Reingold, 512 blz.

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.

• Has general appeal across computer science and beyond • LISP and Java code available on the web site • Now includes generic cyclical calendars and astronomical lunar calendars as well as the Korean, Vietnamese, Aztec, and Tibetan calendars
Contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Arithmetical Calendars: 2. The Gregorian calendar; 3. The Julian calendar; 4. The Coptic and Ethiopic calendars; 5. The ISO calendar; 6. The Islamic calendar; 7. The Hebrew calendar; 8. The Ecclesiastical calendars; 9. The Old Hindu calendars; 10. The Mayan calendar; 11. The Balinese Pawukon calendar; 12. Generic cyclical calendars; Part II. Astronomical Calendars: 13. Time and astronomy; 14. The Persian calendar; 15. The Baha’i calendar; 16. The French Revolutionary calendar; 17. The Chinese calendar; 18. The modern Hindu calendars ; 19. The Tibetan calendar; 20. Astronomical lunar calendars coda; Part III. Appendices: A. Function, parameter, and constant types; B. Lisp implementation; C. Sample data.

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