Mathematician
William Kahan
The floating point standard every computer arithmetic unit obeys.
William "Velvel" Morton Kahan is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis."
- Born
- 1933-06-05, Toronto, CanadaA Monday
- At birth
- Sun in Gemini, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1933-06-05, Toronto, Canada · time unknown, noon chart
America/Torontothe zone used then
America/TorontoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 14°30′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 8°19′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Gemini | 24°01′ | Direct |
| Venus | Gemini | 26°28′ | Direct |
| Mars | Virgo | 14°41′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 14°18′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 16°18′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Aries | 26°06′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 7°28′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Cancer | 21°58′ | Direct |
William Kahan is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment William Kahan was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.