When is Easter?
Type the year that you wish to find when Easter is/was into the box on the right and press calculate:
Note: This calculator is only accurate for Gregorian dates (years after 1582) and it will eventually become inaccurate (after a few hundreds of thousands of years!), since the planets rotation is slowly decreasing.
When the day that Easter falls on is plotted on a graph, we see that Easter is a Quasicrystal.
For more information on this topic, see Scientific American, March 2001.
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Jamie Coventry 22nd March 2001