Calendrical calculation

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A Calendrical calculation is a calculation concerning calendar dates. Calendrical calculations can be considered an area of applied mathematics. Some examples of calendrical calculations:

  • The number of days between two dates.
  • The date of a religious holiday, like Easter (the calculation is known as Computus) or Passover, for a given year.
  • Converting a date between different calendars. For instance, dates in the Gregorian calendar can be converted to dates in the Islamic calendar with the Kuwaiti algorithm.
  • Calculating the day of the week.

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