Easter

/**
 * This program implements the algorithm created by Fredrich Gauss 
 * for determining the date of Easter
 * 
 * @author: <Lauren-Bayley McDaniel>
 * @date: <Feb 4, 2022>
 */

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Easter{
  
    public static void main(String[] args){

    // call our scanner
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("What year would you like to track down the Easter Bunny for?");

    // compute Carl Friedrich Gauss's weird calculation for finding Easter 

    // Future LB: one thing that worked really well was doing the calculation first, then going to your while loops

        int y = input.nextInt();
        int a = y % 19;
        int b = y / 100;
        int c = y % 100;
        int d = b / 4;
        int e = b % 4;
        int g = (8*b+13)/25;
        int h = (19*a+b-d-g+15)%30;
        int j = c / 4;
        int k = c % 4;
        int m = (a+11*h)/319;
        int r = (2*e+2*j-k-h+m+32) % 7;
        int n = (h-m+r+90)/25;
        int p = (h-m+r+n+19)%32;

    // n=month Easter falls on, so we set it to string variable "April" with a "March" if loop exception of n=3

        String month="April";
        if(n==3)
            month = "March";


    //y = our year. Let's get fancy and say something about years in the future, the past, and our algorithm-sake Gauss's 
        String year ="How do you celebrate Easter?";
        if (y>=2022)
            year = ". Where do you plan on being that far in the future?";
        if (y>=1777 && y<1855)
            year = " This year was during the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the mathemetician who created the algorithm to find what day Easter falls on based on the year. I thought this was odd, so I dug into it. As it so happened, Gauss's mother was illiterate, and did not know what day Frederich was born on. What she did know was it was a on a Wednesday, eight days before the Feast of Ascension. So he created this algorithm to calculate his own birthday. I find that pretty darn charming.";

    // print the results
        System.out.println("In " + y + " Easter fell / will fall on " + month + " " + p + "." + year);



    //end main method

 
    }






}