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Attorneys for Plaintiff
Daniel J. Bernstein


IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA


DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN			)	
					)  C 95-00582 MHP
                    Plaintiff,         	) 	
					)  DECLARATION OF DANIEL J. 
v.					)  BERNSTEIN IN OPPOSITION TO
		                       	)  DEFENDANTS' SECOND MOTION
					)  FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT         
					)                      	
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 		)  
 STATE et al.,  	         	)   
					)   Date:    June 18, 1997
		                   	)   Time:   10:30 a.m.
	   Defendants.		        )   Judge:  Honorable
________________________________________)           Marilyn Hall Patel



	
	I, DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN, declare:
	1.	I am the Plaintiff in the above-entitled action.  The
facts stated herein are known to me of my own personal knowledge and, if
called upon to testify thereon, I could and would competently do so.  
	2.	I am currently  Research Assistant Professor in the
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the
University of Illinois at Chicago.   
	3.	On 16 May 1997, I wrote a computer program, a copy of
which is attached hereto as Exhibit "A."  
	4. 	The program calculates the date of Easter in a given year.
For example, given the year 1998,  the program will help a person
determine that Easter will occur on 12 April.
	5. 	The program uses an algorithm published by Knuth in The
Art of Computer Programming, page 155.  Knuth credits the algorithm to
Aloysius Lilius and Christopher Clavius in the 16th century.
	6. 	The program is COBOL source code.  COBOL,  the Common
Business-Oriented Language, is a programming language very similar to
English.  According to a recent article in the New York Times
("Programming Languages: Survivors and Wannabes," 9 September 1996), COBOL
"is 35 years old and remains the most popular language for corporate
mainframe programming."
	7.  	There are several ways to use the program. People who can
read English can read the program and follow the instructions manually.
People who own calculators can save time by giving all the arithmetic
instructions to their calculators. People who own computers with COBOL
compilers can save even more time by compiling the program and letting
their computers do all the work.
	I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and
correct and that this Declaration was signed on ______________________,
1997 in Chicago, IL.


DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN
					Exhibit A

Identification division.
  Program-ID. Date-of-Easter.

Environment division.
Data division.
  Working-storage section.
    01 year       picture 99999.
    01 result     picture 99999.
    01 century    picture 99999.
    01 leapdays   picture 99999.
    01 moondays   picture 99999.
    01 X          picture 99999.
    01 Y          picture 99999.
    01 J          picture 99999.
    01 N          picture 99999.

Procedure division.

  Display "Give me a year.".
  Accept year.

  Divide year by 100 giving result.
  Add 1 to result giving century.

   * Note: Always round down. Discard remainders.

  Multiply century by 3 giving result.
  Divide result by 4 giving leapdays.

  Multiply century by 8 giving result.
  Add 5 to result.
  Divide result by 25 giving moondays.

  Divide year by 19 giving result.
  Multiply result by 19.
  Subtract result from year giving J.

  Multiply J by 11 giving result.
  Add moondays to result.
  Subtract leapdays from result.
  Add 614 to result giving X.

  Divide X by 30 giving result.
  Multiply result by 30.
  Subtract X from result.
  Add 57 to result giving N.

  If N is equal to 56 and J is greater than 10
    subtract 1 from N.
  If N is equal to 57
    subtract 1 from N.

  Multiply year by 5 giving result.
  Divide result by 4.
  Subtract leapdays from result.
  Add N to result.
  Add 2 to result giving Y.
  Divide Y by 7 giving result.
  Multiply result by 7.
  Add N to result.
  Subtract Y from result.

  If result is less than 32
    display "March" result.
  Subtract 31 from result.
  If result is greater than 0
    display "April" result.

  Stop run.