Diophantine eclipses

MaRDI QIDQ4590828zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrew Simoson

Publication date 20 November 2017

zbMATH Keywords

ascending and descending nodescontinued fractionconvergenteclipses (solar, lunar, and annular)ecliptic planegesungreatest common divisorlinear Diophantine equationmosunperiods (draconic, synodic, and sidereal)primary and secondary shadows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Celestial mechanics (70F15)

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