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system of reckoning



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Or, to be more precise, his briss, which the inventor of the Anno Domini system of reckoning, a Scythian monk named Dennis the Diminutive, calculated--surely errantly--to have taken place on Jan. 1, A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Assyrians were endowed with a keen sense of history, and had invented a system of reckoning time by means of certain officers called limmi, who gave their names to their years of office.

From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

By using this new system of reckoning, your illustrious but exceedingly narrow-minded and miserly father would be able to make five taels where he now makes one.

From The Wallet of Kai Lung by Bramah, Ernest

The system of reckoning kinship through females only.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John

Hamburg banco, the system of reckoning of the Hamburg Bank.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur




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