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To take away the uncertainty, you only have to specify which set of rules. As I said above, different churches use different rules (Gregorian vs Julian), so you have to specify at least which of those you want. But having specified Gregorian, there's no need to limit it to such a narrow range of years; the Gregorian rules are valid in the Western Church as far back as the Gregorian calendar has been in use, which is of course locale-dependent, but goes back at least as far as 1929 everywhere (see [[wp:Gregorian Calendar#Adoption]]), and those rules are valid for the foreseeable future as well (though there have been proposals to abandon them in favor of a wholly astronomical calculation.) --[[User:Markjreed|Markjreed]] 03:58, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
== Inconsistency for negative years ==
There is an inconsistency in the results of the solutions on this page for negative years. (Yes, I know that Easter didn't exist back then, but this is just from an algorithmic perspective.) For example, for the year -1 (i.e. 2 B.C.), the C code produces an Easter date of March 27, while the Ruby code produces April 18. I believe this is due to the different behavior of the modulo operator for negative numbers. --[[User:Spoon!|Spoon!]] 23:43, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
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