Woman goes to hospital for leg surgery, gets new anus.
Thanks Michal!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
The Easter Formula
Easter's date is determined by the spring equinox - the point in the year when the day and night are of equal length.
If the full moon after the equinox is on a Sunday, then Easter is on the following Sunday.
The formula was decided after much controversy among early Christians in 325. The festival cannot fall earlier than 22 March or later than 25 April.
It may look daunting to non-mathematicians but the fiendishly complex formula used to work out when Easter actually falls is:
((19*t+u-w-(u-(u+8)\25)+1)\3)+15)mod30)+(32+2*x+2*y-(19*t+u-w- (u-(u+8)\25)+1)\3)+15)mod30)-z)mod7)-7*(t+11*(19*t+u-w(u- (u+8)\25)+1)\3)+15)mod30)+22*(32+2*x+2*y-(19*t+u-w-(u- (u+8)\25)+1)\3)+15)mod30)-g)mod7)+114)\31
This year will be the earliest anyone now alive will ever see Easter because it will not fall this early again for over 100 years - in 2160.
It is not the earliest Easter can be celebrated however - that is a day earlier on March 22 though the next time it will fall then will be in 2285.
The last time it was on March 22 was 1818.
The odds are considerably better for witnessing a late Easter.
Many people are still around from the last time Easter fell on April 25 in 1943 and a good many now living will likely still be around when Easter next falls on April 25 in 2038.
But calculating when the annual Christian celebration of Christ's resurrection actually falls is something of a mystery to the average person.
The Moon's phases are not an exact even number of days so an algorithm is used to calculate the exact date of the full moon.
In addition the Christian Church decided to use the date of 21 March as the Spring Equinox even though the actual date of the Equinox varies slightly from year to year.
The exact method of calculation of the date of Easter was a hot topic for the early Christian church.
It was felt that to celebrate Christ's resurrection on the wrong day would be blasphemous so it was very important to get the day right. The general rule was agreed at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD.
It was many hundreds of years after this that a working algorithm was devised.
This was perfected in the 16th Century by Aloysius Lilius at the same time that he devised the Gregorian Calendar which is still used today.
Due to a rift between the Eastern and Western churches, the Eastern Church (Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox) uses a different algorithm for the calculation of Easter.
The cycle of Easter dates repeats after exactly 5,700,000 years, with April 19 being the most common date, happening 220,400 times, or 3.9% compared to a mean for all dates of 162,857 times, or 2.9%.
If the full moon after the equinox is on a Sunday, then Easter is on the following Sunday.
The formula was decided after much controversy among early Christians in 325. The festival cannot fall earlier than 22 March or later than 25 April.
It may look daunting to non-mathematicians but the fiendishly complex formula used to work out when Easter actually falls is:
((19*t+u-w-(u-(u+8)\25)+1)\3)+15)mod30)+(32+2*x+2*y-(19*t+u-w- (u-(u+8)\25)+1)\3)+15)mod30)-z)mod7)-7*(t+11*(19*t+u-w(u- (u+8)\25)+1)\3)+15)mod30)+22*(32+2*x+2*y-(19*t+u-w-(u- (u+8)\25)+1)\3)+15)mod30)-g)mod7)+114)\31
This year will be the earliest anyone now alive will ever see Easter because it will not fall this early again for over 100 years - in 2160.
It is not the earliest Easter can be celebrated however - that is a day earlier on March 22 though the next time it will fall then will be in 2285.
The last time it was on March 22 was 1818.
The odds are considerably better for witnessing a late Easter.
Many people are still around from the last time Easter fell on April 25 in 1943 and a good many now living will likely still be around when Easter next falls on April 25 in 2038.
But calculating when the annual Christian celebration of Christ's resurrection actually falls is something of a mystery to the average person.
The Moon's phases are not an exact even number of days so an algorithm is used to calculate the exact date of the full moon.
In addition the Christian Church decided to use the date of 21 March as the Spring Equinox even though the actual date of the Equinox varies slightly from year to year.
The exact method of calculation of the date of Easter was a hot topic for the early Christian church.
It was felt that to celebrate Christ's resurrection on the wrong day would be blasphemous so it was very important to get the day right. The general rule was agreed at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD.
It was many hundreds of years after this that a working algorithm was devised.
This was perfected in the 16th Century by Aloysius Lilius at the same time that he devised the Gregorian Calendar which is still used today.
Due to a rift between the Eastern and Western churches, the Eastern Church (Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox) uses a different algorithm for the calculation of Easter.
The cycle of Easter dates repeats after exactly 5,700,000 years, with April 19 being the most common date, happening 220,400 times, or 3.9% compared to a mean for all dates of 162,857 times, or 2.9%.
Sex sells cars
Here in stupid puritanical USA we don't get these commercials.
This one has nothing to do with sex but it's still one of the best commercials to never air... anywhere.
This one has nothing to do with sex but it's still one of the best commercials to never air... anywhere.
Sick Edits
I don't know if there is a name to this style, but i like it. A lot. Barry, where can i find more of this?
My first introduction:
(Side note: this was a highly under-rated HBO program)
A rather amusing French rap video, all i know is they are saying "Cut the Cake":
My first introduction:
(Side note: this was a highly under-rated HBO program)
A rather amusing French rap video, all i know is they are saying "Cut the Cake":
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