Date of Easter
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date-of-easter-174-15593466
title:
Date of Easter
text:
As a moveable feast, the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as computus. Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon. Determining this date in advance requires a correlation between the lunar months and the solar year, while also accounting for the month, date, and weekday of the Julian or Gregorian calendar. The complexity of the algorithm arises because of the desire to associate the date of Easter with the date of the Jewish feast of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_Easter
date created:
2003-04-22T07:24:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T23:33:37Z
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