At the beginning stands the usual introductory matter, such as the tables for determining the date of Easter, the calendar, and the general rubrics.

It is however probable ( though no contemporary account of the Council's decisions has survived ) that no method of determining the date was specified by the Council.

In applying the ecclesiastical rules, Christian churches use 21 March as the starting point in determining the date of Easter, from which they find the next full moon, etc.

Their starting point in determining the date of Orthodox Easter is also 21 March, but according to the Julian reckoning, which currently corresponds to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar.

In determining the date of the Gregorian and Julian Easter a lunisolar cycle is followed.

A few clergy of various denominations have advanced the notion of disregarding the moon altogether in determining the date of Easter.

Reform of the date of Easter has been proposed several times because the current system for determining the date of Easter is seen as presenting two significant problems:

The World Council of Churches proposed a reform of the method of determining the date of Easter at a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997: Easter would be defined as the first Sunday following the first astronomical full moon following the astronomical vernal equinox, as determined from the meridian of Jerusalem.

The date of Pascha is central to the entire ecclesiastical year, determining not only the date for the beginning of Great Lent and Pentecost, but affecting the cycle of moveable feasts, of scriptural readings and the Octoechos ( texts chanted according to the eight ecclesiastical modes ) throughout the year.

The Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice inside the church of Saint Sulpice in Paris, France, built to assist in determining the date of Easter, was fictionalized as a " Rose Line " in the novel The Da Vinci Code.

The date when Mitochondrial Eve lived is estimated by determining the MRCA of a sample of mtDNA lineages.

To date, few Chobham armour-protected tanks have been defeated by enemy fire in combat ; the relevance of individual cases of lost tanks for determining the protective qualities of Chobham armour is difficult to ascertain as the extent to which such tanks are protected by ceramic modules is undisclosed.

* A simple method for determining the date of Easter for all years 326 to 4099 A. D. by Ronald W. Mallen

The method of determining the date of the Exodus and entry into Canaan from the Jubilee cycles is independent of the method of deriving these dates from 1 Kings 6: 1, yet the two methods agree.

The epact ( Latin epactae, from Greek: epaktai hèmerai = added days ) was originally defined as the age of the moon in days on January 1, and occurs primarily in connection with tabular methods for determining the date of Easter.

Ezekiel's treatment of Jeconiah's dates are a starting point for determining the date of the fall of Jerusalem.

There is no way of determining his date of birth, but given that he was at the height of his powers in the later 250s and 260s AD he is likely to have been born by 230 at the latest.

The document's subtitle and copyright dates make determining the exact date difficult, “ The Quick Success ( R ) Program ” with the subtitle “ New for 1989 ” has a copyright date of 1987, 1988.

A seven-to eight-year gap between the Ethiopian and Gregorian calendars results from alternate calculations in determining the date of the Annunciation of Jesus.

There is a right of priority, and the application date of the first application filed in any country is the date used in determining priority.

According to Jewish esoteric teachings, the Hebrew letters are the lifeforce of all things created, determining their essence.

Reform and Reconstructionist Jews deny that these texts may be used for determining normative law ( laws accepted as binding ) but accept them as the authentic and only Jewish version for understanding the Torah and its development throughout history.

This work was so important in Jewish law that Yosef Karo included the ROSH together with Maimonides and Isaac Alfasi as one of the three major poskim ( decisors ) considered in determining the final ruling in his Shulkhan Arukh.

As a boy growing up in the Jewish quarter of Córdoba, Maltese discovered that he had no fate line on his palm and therefore carved his own with a razor, determining that his fate was his to choose.

" Meron Benvenisti writes that the committee chose this symbolic new name after determining that there was no known Jewish historical connection to the village of Suhmata.

Because of its comprehensive scope, authority, and widespread availability, the Encyclopaedia Judaica has been recommended by the Library of Congress and by the Association of Jewish Libraries for use in determining the authoritative romanization of names of Jewish authors.

Jewish influence may have been a determining factor in some other practices in food preparation and eating habits.

Membership in these governing groups are selected by representatives of the Jewish community they serve, with Jewish scholarship considered to be the key factors for determining leaders.

The debates about a fixed rule for determining the dates of DST went on for years, and resulted in a suggestion that DST will start on the 2nd day of Passover and end on the weekend between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

The Gregorian calendar reforms made slight changes to the system for determining which years were leap years and thus contained a 29-day February.

Since the calendar uses astronomical calculation for determining the vernal equinox, it has no intrinsic error, but this makes it an observation based calendar.

It also performs the role of Hindu Religious Consultant to the Government of Malaysia in determining the Hindu yearly calendar.

The scheme followed the Gregorian calendar rules for determining which years are leap years, and started on January 1.

The name day of Anders in the Scandinavian calendar is November 30, and in the old peasant superstition that day was important for determining what the Christmas weather would be.

Since the Gregorian calendar was adopted at different times in different regions of the world, the location of an event is significant in determining the correct day of the week for a date that occurred during this transition period.

Robert McClennon's version of the calendar differed from Henry's in that it has a simple rule for determining which years have a leap week.

The history of science in classical antiquity encompasses both those inquiries into the workings of the universe aimed at such practical goals as establishing a reliable calendar or determining how to cure a variety of illnesses and those abstract investigations known as natural philosophy.

While some Islamic organisations prefer determining the new month ( and hence the new year ) by local sightings of the moon, most Islamic institutions and countries, including Saudi Arabia, follow astronomical calculations to determine future dates of the Islamic calendar.

The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

It's not a science as involved as determining what makes the earth rotate on its axis or building a rocket or putting a satellite into orbit but it is, nevertheless, a science.

The observational data determining the concentration distribution have a range of error which is magnified in the extension into the micrometeorite region.

In determining the extent to which any poem is formulaic it is idle, however, to inspect nothing besides lines repeated in their entirety, for a stock of line-fragments would be sufficient to permit the poet to extemporize with deftness if they provided for prosodic needs.

Proponents of single elements tend to ensure predominance of that element without determining if it is justified, and the element with the most enthusiastic and vociferous proponents has assumed the greatest importance.

The most important factor in determining what properties the end-product will have is quite naturally the type of hydroxyl-rich compound that is used in its production.

This test method is intended for determining the dimensional changes of woven or knitted fabrics, made of fibers other than wool, to be expected when the cloth is subjected to laundering procedures commonly used in the commercial laundry and the home.

The latter plays a prominent role in Roman Catholic theology and is considered decisive, entirely apart from Scripture, in determining the ethical character of birth-prevention methods.

Obviously, much more than customer expectation is determining the realtor's role.

Power analysis can assist in study design by determining what sample size would be required in order to have a reasonable chance of rejecting the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.

The number of electrons in each element's electron shells, particularly the outermost valence shell, is the primary factor in determining its chemical bonding behavior.

But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.

The meter is defined to be a unit of proper length, but the SI definition does not specify the metric tensor to be used in determining it.

The depth of water is necessary for determining scope, which is the ratio of length of cable to the depth measured from the highest point ( usually the anchor roller or bow chock ) to the seabed.

Finally, in 1267, a treaty was signed in Badajoz, determining that the southern border between Castile and Portugal should be the River Guadiana, as it is today.

When the volume of an alcoholic drink is shown in centilitres, determining the number of units in a drink is as simple as < var > volume </ var > × < var > percentage </ var > ( converted into a fraction of 1 ).

Measuring the pulse wave velocity ( invasively and non-invasively ) is a means of determining arterial stiffness.

These narratives may be true and may be false ; the veracity of the stories is not a determining factor.

Although these effects may be either beneficial or detrimental, the location of the area is crucial in determining the extent of the impact that abiotic stress will have.

In analytical chemistry the technique is used for determining the concentration of a particular element ( the analyte ) in a sample to be analyzed.