Easter may be humanity's chronologically earliest coding horror
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The more I research the Easter calculations, the more I get the sense not of necessary complexity but of deliberate obfuscation
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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For example, documentation seemingly goes to inordinate lengths to conceal the fact that this lunar calendar ignores leap days
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