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computusnoun
The calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar.
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Computus
Computus is the calculation of the date of Easter in terms of, first, the Julian and, later, the Gregorian calendar. The name has been used for this procedure since the early Middle Ages, as it was considered the most important computation of the age. Following the First Council of Nicaea, the date for Easter was completely divorced from the Jewish calendar and its computations for Passover. Thereafter, in principle, Easter fell on the Sunday following the full moon that follows the Northern spring equinox. However, the vernal equinox and the full moon were not determined by astronomical observation. Instead, the vernal equinox was fixed to fall on the 21st day of March, while the full moon was fixed at 14 days after the beginning of the ecclesiastical lunar month. Easter thus falls on the Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon. The computus is the procedure of determining the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon falling on or after 21 March and the difficulty arose from doing this over the span of centuries without accurate means of measuring the precise solar or lunar years.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of computus in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of computus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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