1. Moonage
Marvelous! It works! I just tried Ad Rienks' 'moonage' program, and it
came out right on the nose (except that certain phases, which are usually
calculated to occur at a particular hour and minute, sometimes last two or
three days according to the program -- but so what?)
A couple of years ago I calculated the date of full moon in October, 2002,
and it turned out to be on the 20th. I picked that month out of thin air.
This was very much a brute-force calculation, and I had no assurance that it
was anywhere near correct. Now the moonage program says I hit it dead on.
Wally Riley
wryly at mindspring.com
2. Moonage
Wally Riley wrote:
>Marvelous! It works! I just tried Ad Rienks' 'moonage' program, and it=
>came out right on the nose (except that certain phases, which are usuall=
y
>calculated to occur at a particular hour and minute, sometimes last two =
or
>three days according to the program -- but so what?)
Thanks for the compliments, but as you can see in the header of the
program,
it is only an Euphoria translation of a C program by someone else. The
program
can of course be changed in such a way that it only says 'new moon' when
the
moon_age is 0, etc.
>A couple of years ago I calculated the date of full moon in October, 200=
2,
>and it turned out to be on the 20th. I picked that month out of thin ai=
r.
>This was very much a brute-force calculation, and I had no assurance tha=
t
it
>was anywhere near correct. Now the moonage program says I hit it dead o=
n.
How did you calculate this by 'brute force'? Is there an algorithm
different from the
one used in moon_age?
Ad Rienks
Ad_Rienks at compuserve.com
>Wally Riley
>wryly at mindspring.com
