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Subject: Re: Jewish to Gregorian
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Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 16:33:00 EST
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Authors Note:  Please change the word trivial in the previous note to
               something less offensive to those who have written
               mail about how non-trivial it is.

But the diffference between a simple formulae and a simple program is
quite great.  A simple program can be a straightforward application
of 100 various rules, which would never qualify as a simple function.

Certainly it is nowhere near as "simple" as the calculation of Easter,
but a Jewish/Gregorian conversion is not impossible.  It would not
be cheap on CPU time to say, request Lag B'Omer in 6225, but to go
ahead and crank out the Jewish Holidays for the next few years
sequentially is not expensive.  I presumed that was the intent of the
message.  I did not propose to solve an academic problem, rather a
pratical one.

If someone wants a program that will schedule for the next few years,
then I stand by my offer.

If someone wants a program which will arbitrarily calculate any holiday
of any year by a simple calculation, that I cannot provide.

I apologize to those I have offended by shrugging at the problem,

-DL

"He who thinks himself the wise man is, alas, but the fool amonst us."
 -with apologies to W.S.
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