Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp internal release 1.2; site hplabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!iles From: iles@hplabs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Jewish to Gregorian Message-ID: <7300004@hplabs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 16:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: hplabs.7300004 Posted: Sun Jan 13 16:33:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 08:33:09 EST References: <7300003@hplabs.UUCP> Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:hplabs:7300003:hplabs:7300004:000:1228 Nf-From: hplabs!iles Jan 10 13:33:00 1985 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. :x :y :z :...