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Ruby implementation to find out the easter day date for a specific year (based on Anonymous Gregorian algorithm)
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require "date" | |
# anonymous gregorian algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus#Anonymous_Gregorian_algorithm) | |
def easter_day(year) | |
if year.is_a?(Integer) | |
y = year | |
# calculation | |
a = y % 19 | |
b = y / 100 | |
c = y % 100 | |
d = b / 4 | |
e = b % 4 | |
f = (b + 8) / 25 | |
g = (b - f + 1) / 3 | |
h = (19 * a + b - d - g + 15) % 30 | |
i = c / 4 | |
k = c % 4 | |
l = (32 + 2 * e + 2 * i - h - k) % 7 | |
m = (a + 11 * h + 22 * l) / 451; | |
# date | |
month = (h + l - 7 * m + 114) / 31; | |
day = ((h + l - 7 * m + 114) % 31) + 1; | |
Date.new(year,month,day).to_s | |
else | |
nil | |
end | |
end |
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