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Gregorian calendar jitter and lunar calendar in Wikipedia computus

by Tom Peters-6 :: Rate this Message:

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Joe Kress and others:
I noticed that in the Wikipedia article on the computus (http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus), at some time the explanation has  
been removed how the use of a separate solar and lunar  
"equation" (=correction) prevents introducing the jitter in the  
Gregorian solar calendar into its lunar calendar.  Is that  
intentional?  I make a point of it because some years ago Heiner  
Lichtenberg published some papers on the Lilius lunar calendar, in  
which he promotes the idea that the calendar could be simplified/
improved by distributing the net 43 corrections evenly; which is not  
a bright idea as explained in the deleted paragraph.

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Tom Peters

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