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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:23:07 -0500 (CDT)
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Subject: New edition of Calendrical Calculations
At some point you downloaded the code from "Calendrical Calculations" by
Dershowitz and Reingold, so the following information about a new edition may
be of interest:
Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition, by Edward M. Reingold and
Nachum Dershowitz (Cambridge University Press, 2001) includes the following
improvements over the first (1997) edition, in addition to correcting all
known errors:
1. New chapter on the Balinese Pawukon calendar.
2. New sections on the early Egyptian calendar (and the several calendars
nearly identical to it), alternative functions for the Gregorian calendar,
the Roman nomenclature for dates, and the Japanese calendar.
3. New sections on astronomical solar calendars (including the future
Bahai calendar), the observational Islamic calendar, astronomical rules for
the determination of Passover and Easter, and the astronomical Persian
calendar.
4. Corrected Ethiopic and Hindu calendar code and corrected tables.
5. Substantially improved code for the Hebrew, Mayan, Chinese, and Hindu
calendars.
6. Details of times-of-day calculations in Jewish and Islamic religious
practice.
7. Improved robustness of the code.
8. Uniform epoch and units in the astronomical code.
This new edition also comes with a compact disc for personal computers
that contains the following files and directories:
(a) An applet for converting dates based on the algorithms of this book.
(b) Lisp code that implements the calendar functions in this book.
(c) Lists of the month names used in the different calendars.
(d) A Mathematica implementation.
(e) A Java implementation.
(f) A directory containing tables of sample dates.
(g) Tab-separated tables of dates for
all the calendars covered in this book for the years 2000--2005.
The code for this edition will not be distributed over the web or by email
(that has been too tedious). It will only be available on the CD included
with the book.
Professor Edward M. Reingold Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chairman, Department of Computer Science Voice: (312) 567-3309
Illinois Institute of Technology Secretary: (312) 567-5152
Stuart Building Fax: (312) 567-5067
10 West 31st Street, Suite 236
Chicago, IL 60616-3729 U.S.A.
