 1249 possible <i>xi&#462;oy&#250;</i>s one by one and see which one can produce the dates matching all of the listed 1262 dates. I wrote a simple computer code to carry out the calculation and found a unique solution: the <i>xi&#462;oy&#250;</i> of the first conjunction was <span class="nowrap">611/1249</span>. The <i>xi&#462;oy&#250;</i> increases by 663 (mod 1249) each month. Since mod(611 + 195&times;663, 1249) = 0, the 196th conjunction in the table occurred at midnight. This conjunction occurred on Oc