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Schweinshaxe (German pronunciation: [ˈʃvaɪnshaksə] ⓘ; literally "swine's hock"), in German cuisine, is a roasted ham hock (or pork knuckle). [1] The ham hock is the end of the pig's leg, just above the ankle and below the meaty ham portion.
To calculate the numerical portion of the Tzolkʼin date, add 4 to the total number of days given by the date and then divide total number of days by 13. (4 + 1,383,136) / 13 = 106,395 (and 5/13) This means that 106,395 whole 13 day cycles have been completed and the numerical portion of the Tzolkʼin date is 5.
The days in the numerators are calculated on a Julian day difference basis. In this convention the first day of the period is included and the last day is excluded. The CouponFactor uses the same formula, replacing Date2 by Date3. In general, coupon payments will vary from period to period, due to the differing number of days in the periods.
The number of days between two dates, which is simply the difference in their Julian day numbers. The dates of moveable holidays, like Christian Easter (the calculation is known as Computus ) followed up by Ascension Thursday and Pentecost or Advent Sundays, or the Jewish Passover , for a given year.
The knuckle mnemonic is a mnemonic device for remembering the number of days in the months of the Julian and Gregorian calendars ... Knuckles are counted as 31 days ...
A Lilian date is the number of days since the beginning of the Gregorian calendar on October 15, 1582, regarded as Lilian date 1. It was invented by Bruce G. Ohms of IBM in 1986 and is named for Aloysius Lilius, who devised the Gregorian Calendar. [1]
Applying the Doomsday algorithm involves three steps: determination of the anchor day for the century, calculation of the anchor day for the year from the one for the century, and selection of the closest date out of those that always fall on the doomsday, e.g., 4/4 and 6/6, and count of the number of days between that date and the date in ...
Give February the appropriate number of days for the calendar being converted into. When subtracting days to calculate the Gregorian equivalent of 29 February (Julian), 29 February is discounted. Thus if the calculated value is −4 the Gregorian equivalent of this date is 24 February. [29] [30]