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  Calendrical calculations: the ultimate edition (4th ed.)
Reingold E., Dershowitz N., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2018. 662 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-107683-16-7)

Calendrical computation is motivated by a collision between incommensurability and importance. The month (the time from one new moon to another) is not an integral number of days, and the year (the time between successive spring equino...
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Jul 30 2019  
  Pillars of computer science: essays dedicated to Boris (Boaz) Trakhtenbrot on the occasion of his 85th birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4800)
Avron A., Dershowitz N., Rabinovich A., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008. 683 pp.  Type: Book (9783540781264)

This festschrift is dedicated to Boris Trakhtenbrot on the occasion of his 85th birthday. It contains a valuable paper by Trakhtenbrot himself, which narrates the work in his thesis (the now-famous theorem of 1950 that validity of firs...
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Jan 6 2009  
  Calendrical calculations
Dershowitz N., Reingold E., CAMBRIDGE UNIVERISTY PRESS, 2007. 423 pp.  Type: Book

Much effort has been expended over the centuries on fixing and computing calendars, and many bitter controversies have been pursued. While controversies are fewer today, and most people take their calendars and holidays as they occur, ...
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Aug 12 2008  
  Verification: theory and practice
Dershowitz N., Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 2004. 783 pp.  Type: Book (9783540210023)

The collection of papers in this volume was taken from a weeklong symposium, held in Taormina, Italy in 2003, to honor Professor Zohar Manna’s 26th birthday (which, for us mortals, means 64). The papers cover the fields where...
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Oct 6 2004  
  Calendrical Calculations: the millennium edition
Reingold E., Dershowitz N., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2001. 460 pp.  Type: Book (9780521777520)

Do you know what day it is? A common enough question, but it can be a very expensive question if your software produces the wrong result. Much attention was focused on just such a question because of the “Y2K bug” t...
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May 7 2002  

 
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