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golden number
noun
- a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
the golden number of 1984 is 9
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It is, however, only used in those years in which the epact 19 concurs with the golden number 19.
When the golden number is 19, that is to say, in the last year of the lunar cycle, the supplementary month contains only 29 days.
This period is the cycle of the moon, called the Golden Number because the Greeks, to honor it, had it written in letters of gold.
Divide one more than the given year by 19, the remainder (or 19 if no remainder) is the golden number.
The Golden Number is a term arising from the discovery that the sun performs his annual course 19 times to the moon's 235.
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