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>What a wonderful thing! It worked perfectly for me. At least, it came up >with a date; whether or not the date was correct, God knows. >Thanks, Otters. > >Bill. Dear Bill, The algorithm on which I based my program was invented by some mathematician in the last century (I forgot the name) and is generally supposed to produce *mathematically* correct results. Whether these results are also *historically* correct is another question, depending on the specific period and region you are interested in. There is also, of course, a possibility that I produced bugs of my own when writing the program. I wrote it originally as a MS-Dos executable and checked it thoroughly (also by comparing results with a chronological handbook), but then rewrote it in JavaScript and found out to my surprise that suddenly most easter dates fell on a 35th of april... The problem was due to a missing character in the program listing (we all misspell a few things in our live ;-), but now that I have fixed this bug I think the results are again mathematically correct. Yours, Otters? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Otfried Lieberknecht, Schoeneberger Str. 11, D-12163 Berlin tel: ++49 +30 8516675, fax: ++49 +89 6661792543, [log in to unmask] Homepage for Dante Studies: http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html Listowner of Italian-Studies: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies/ Listowner of Medieval-Religion: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%