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Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition
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Author: Edward M. Reingold, Nachum Dershowitz
List Price: $40.00
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ISBN: 0521777526
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (01 July, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 123,593
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Good, but pseudocode hard to swallow
This books teaches you a lot of about the mathematics
that needs to go behind calculations to determine date/time,
and is truly a must-read book for people who want to
write such software.However, I did find the equations hard to adopt for my
own use, partially because the pseudocode fails to show
exactly what the units were. For example, on the later
chapters where one must take into account planetary
position and such, it is extremely hard to find out
exactly what each variable/number represent if you're
not already very familiar with the subject. I believe
most of the definitions are in fact in the book *somewhere*,
but they are buried deep. This makes it extremely cumbersome and
time consuming for the reader to actually try to
implement the calculations. If the notation can be improved a bit, I think it would
be even better book.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Fascinating
All you ever wanted to know about calendrical stuff.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Super
Super! Better than the first edition: give it 6 stars.
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