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Developer builds computation engine for Chinese Four Pillars astrology
Original: What happens when a birth time lands in the hour a solar term changes? A 30-minute error can swap an entire pillar. I sp
A developer has spent the past year building a computation engine for BaZi, the Chinese Four Pillars birth-chart system, reverse-engineering its rules as a technical rather than mystical exercise. The tricky part: when a birth time falls within the hour a solar term changes, even a 30-minute error can swap an entire chart pillar, changing the whole reading.
Why now: The engineering challenge of handling solar-term boundary edge cases in date-time computation is a genuinely interesting problem for software-minded readers.
BaZiFour Pillars of Destinysolar termsChinese calendar
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- What happens when a birth time lands in the hour a solar term changes? A 30-minute error can swap an entire pillar. I spent the past year building a computation engine for this system and reverse-engineering its rules. I don't treat it as a mystical practice. I think of it as a… · hackaday@www.urbanmind.net · 4
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