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THAT the formula of Gauss for finding the date of Easter fails in certain cases, of which the year 1954 is one, was pointed out by Gauss in his original paper in the Monatliche Correspondenz (vol. ii., p. 229), where he shows that there are the following two exceptions to the formula in the Gregorian calendar:—
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DREYER, J. The Date of Easter. Nature 74, 199–200 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074199a0
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