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Title: Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition by Edward M. Reingold, Nachum Dershowitz ISBN: 0-521-77752-6 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Good, but pseudocode hard to swallow
Comment: 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
Summary: Fascinating
Comment: All you ever wanted to know about calendrical stuff.

Rating: 5
Summary: Super
Comment: Super! Better than the first edition: give it 6 stars.

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