Calendrical Calculations Millennium edition
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2001
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Millennium edition
Cambridge University Press
978-0-521-77167-2 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press
978-0-521-77167-2 (ISBN)
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This new edition of the successful calendars book is being published in the new millennium, and includes new calendar variants. The book presents a description of fourteen calendars and how they relate to one another. Calendrical Calculations makes accurate calendrical algorithms readily available for computer use.
This new edition of the successful calendars book is being published in the new millennium and expands the treatment of the previous edition to new calendar variants. Calendrical Calculations makes accurate calendrical algorithms readily available for computer use with LISP and Java code for all the algorithms included on CD, and updates available on the Web. It gives a description of fourteen calendars and how they relate to one another: the present civil calendar (Gregorian), the recent ISO commercial calendar, the old civil calendar (Julian), the Coptic and Ethiopic calendars, the Islamic (Moslem) calendar; the Baha'i, the Hebrew (Jewish) calendar, the Mayan calendars, the French Revolutionary calendar, the Chinese calendar, and both the old (mean) and new (true) Hindu (Indian) calendars. This new edition will be a valuable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists.
This new edition of the successful calendars book is being published in the new millennium and expands the treatment of the previous edition to new calendar variants. Calendrical Calculations makes accurate calendrical algorithms readily available for computer use with LISP and Java code for all the algorithms included on CD, and updates available on the Web. It gives a description of fourteen calendars and how they relate to one another: the present civil calendar (Gregorian), the recent ISO commercial calendar, the old civil calendar (Julian), the Coptic and Ethiopic calendars, the Islamic (Moslem) calendar; the Baha'i, the Hebrew (Jewish) calendar, the Mayan calendars, the French Revolutionary calendar, the Chinese calendar, and both the old (mean) and new (true) Hindu (Indian) calendars. This new edition will be a valuable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists.
1. Introduction; Part I. Arithmetical Calendars: 2. The Gregorian calendar; 3. The ISO calendar; 4. The Julian calendar; 5. The Coptic and Ethiopic calendars; 6. The Islamic calendar; 7. The Persian calendar; 8. The Balinese calendar; 9. The Baha'i calendar; 10. The Hebrew calendar; 11. The Mayan calendar; 12. The Old Hindu calendars; Part II. Astronomical Calendars: 13. Time and astronomy; 14. The French Revolutionary calendar; 15. The Chinese calendar; 16. The Modern Hindu calendars; 17. Coda; Appendices.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.8.2001 |
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| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 742 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-77167-6 / 0521771676 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-77167-2 / 9780521771672 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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