The mathematical formula that reveals when Easter is every year. Via @scientific_american #Science #Math #Mathematics πŸ”­πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ₯ΌπŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ #Easter πŸ₯š πŸ‡

The mathematical formula that ...
The mathematical formula that reveals when Easter is every year

You can track the start of spring and the phases of the moonβ€”or you can turn to a formula by mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss

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@foxmental.bsky.social Nice work but several inaccuracies. "#Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday following the first full #moon after the vernal equinox." - but then it says "the vernal equinox, or start of spring, is fixed as March 21. If a full moon occurs on that exact day, March 22 becomes the earliest possible calendar date for Easter Sunday." However: (1) the precise vernal #equinox varies by about +6 hours or (after a February 29th) about -18 hours from one year to the next, so it will not always be on the 21st, particularly in parts of the world in time zones many hours' distant from whatever "standard" "March 21" is used; (2) "on that exact day" - if the precise time of full moon is on that day but BEFORE the precise time of equinox, it will not be "the first full moon after the vernal equinox".
Some of the inaccuracies are better dealt with by #Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_Easter
Date of Easter - Wikipedia