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8 - The Hebrew Calendar

from I - Arithmetical Calendars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2018

Edward M. Reingold
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Illinois Institute of Technology
Nachum Dershowitz
Affiliation:
Tel-Aviv University
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Calendrical Calculations
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, pp. 113 - 142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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