Easter Sunday

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How is the Sunday that Easter falls on determined? This year it’s almost a month after last year. Is this just how the liturgical calendar works out, or is there a different metnod used. I seem to remember being told back in school how it worked, but memory fails me.

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A not so accurate way is the Sunday after the first full moon of Spring. This method usually works, except when the full moon is actually on the first day of spring. The Full Moon is this Thursday around 12:30pm.
 
A Unix shell script to calculate Easter (author? not me):
Code: 
#!/bin/sh
#
# eas.sh - find the date of Easter for a given year.
#
# Usage:  eas.sh <year>

echo $* '[ddsf[lfp[too early
]Pq]s@1583>@
ddd19%1+sg100/1+d3*4/12-sx8*5+25/5-sz5*4/lx-10-sdlg11*20+lz+lx-30%
d[30+]s@0>@d[1+]s@lg11<@]s@25=@d[1+]s@24=@se44le-d[30+]s@21>@dld+7%-7+
[March ]smd[31-[April ]sm]s@31<@psnlmPpsn1z>p]splpx' | dc | sed 'N
y/
/ /'
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