Easter may be humanity's chronologically earliest coding horror
The more I research the Easter calculations, the more I get the sense not of necessary complexity but of deliberate obfuscation
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Easter calculations boil down to converting Gregorian calendar dates to a liturgical lunar calendar which appears to have no formal name (?)
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Getting concrete information about this lunar calendar is surprisingly troublesome, and all the explanations I can find are very bad
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I always assumed it was due to people not knowing what the hell they were doing (this was before we knew orbital mechanics well), but
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you do make a fairly convincing case here, I can't imagine a *worse* method of approximating the Metonic cycle.
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They wanted Easter to fall on the Sunday after Passover week, but they didn't want to use the Jewish calendar or its calculations.
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arbitrary authority, that is religion for you.
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