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This change takes place with epact 25 only, so that the computation of the lunar years may more closely respond to the solar year. It is for this cause, too, that in six places in the calendar two epacts, XXV. and XXIV., are given. The new Breviary contains a tabella of Dominical letters, up to the year 2000 A.D. It needs no comment. Indiction.
"But I must point out to your majesty that by the end of the century the difference will be of twelve days, not eleven." "Not at all; we have seen to that. The last year of this century will not be counted as a leap year. It is fortunate that the difference is one of eleven days, for as that is the number which is added every year to the epact our epacts are almost the same.
The epact of the third year is three, because if 11 be added to the 22, the result is 33, and from this 33 we subtract 30 days which make up a lunar embolism and the remainder gives us 3, the epact for the year, and so on. To take away all doubt in the use of this table, a new table of epacts, an example may be quoted.
"But I must point out to your majesty that by the end of the century the difference will be of twelve days, not eleven." "Not at all; we have seen to that. The last year of this century will not be counted as a leap year. It is fortunate that the difference is one of eleven days, for as that is the number which is added every year to the epact our epacts are almost the same.
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