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Fresh from his triumph with the Car Tax online crib-sheet - Aleko Damaskinos does Orthodox Easter!

Easy-to-use formula! Everyone can use it, provided you can hack long divisions!!

NB: vital you can keep track of those pesky 'remainders'.

1. The year ÷ 4. Carry A
2. The year ÷ 7, carry B
3. The year ÷ 19, carry C (phew!)

Form: (19 X C + 16, ÷ 30, carry D

Form: 2 X A + 4 X B + 6 X D, the sum ÷ 7, carry E - (2 X A + 4 X B + 6 X D) ÷ 7, carry E

N = D + E + 3

N = Days after the 31st March (where N ≤ 30)

Where N is greater than 30, Easter falls on the (N-30) May (as it does this year)

You will have fun!

If a number is indivisible by another, continue, such as putting a decimal point, then you will have a remainder!

VERY IMPORTANT! DON'T ERR IN YOUR CALCULATIONS!!!

Final example ~

Take the year 2013.

÷ 4

Carry A = 1

÷ 7

Carry B = 4 2013 ÷ 19, carry C = 18

19 X 8 + 16 = 358

358 ÷ 30 = remainder D = 28

2 X 1 + 4 X 4 + 6 X 28 = 186 ÷ 7 = remainder E = 4 ~ N = 28 + 4 + 3 = 35

Since N is greater than 30, that means that Easter falls on the N-30 of May, ie 35-30 = 5 May.

By the Calculus of Copernicus! That was hard enough to format and insert the HTML symbols, let alone wonder how it reads on the page.

I suggest you trust Aleko's original Facebook message over my transcription.