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Saturday, 22 March 2008

Isn't Easter early this year?

"Isn't Easter early this year?" everyone seems to be saying to me this year. Yes it is I reply, but being of a geeky nature I also tell them that this is the earliest that Easter has fallen since 1913 and was in fact the second earliest possible date that Easter could fall on. The earliest possible date is 1 day earlier, 22 March and it will next fall on that date in 2285. The range of possible dates for Easter is between 22 March and 25 April, Easter will next fall on April 25 in 2038. However, it will fall on April 24, just one day before this latest possible date, in 2011.
Incredibly, the cycle of Easter dates repeats after exactly 5,700,000 years, with April 19 being the most common date, happening 220,400 times, or 3.9% compared to a median for all dates of 189,525 times, or 3.3%.

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