« Return to Thread: new public beta of Kalendis released

Re: new public beta of Kalendis released

by Karl Palmen :: Rate this Message:

Some parts of this message have been removed. Learn more about Nabble's security policy.

Dear Irv and Calendar People

From: East Carolina University Calendar discussion List [mailto:CALNDR-L@...] On Behalf Of Irv Bromberg
Sent: 18 March 2009 16:52
To: CALNDR-L@...
Subject: Re: new public beta of Kalendis released

On 2009.03.18, at 12:40 , Palmen, KEV (Karl) wrote:

It looks good.

I don’t think Irv considered making the colour correspondence apply to the year number rather than year of cycle number, then the colours in the symmetrical cycles would flip between successive cycles.

Irv replies: That is what I tried first, and was dismayed by the color pattern flip between successive cycles, that is why I switched to year-within-cycle and made sure that the first cycle at the epoch is always shown. Fair enough.

For the almost symmetrical cycles the colours are anti-symmetrical, except for the middle year of the cycle. Irv has shown only one of the two almost-symmetrical cycles for each number C of years. He shows the one where the year C/2 is a leap year and not the other one where year C/2 + 1 is a leap year.

Irv replies: That is correct -- within Kalendis, I standardized on using K=C/2 for even-length cycles, only because the arithmetic is a tad simpler. Is there a better reason to pick K=C/2+1 instead? No, but one should not forget that the K=C/2+1 cycle exists. It is the mirror image of the cycle shown.

Karl

10(06(22 till noon

Scanned by iCritical.

« Return to Thread: new public beta of Kalendis released