"Not only could nobody but Gauss have produced it, but it would never have occurred to anyone but Gauss that such a formula was possible."

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Albert Einstein, on the formula developed by Gauss for finding the date of Passover, as quoted in The Calculated Confusion of Calendars (1976) by W. A. Schocken