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 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 John Fiske
What change in the system of reckoning has been effected?
From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Andrew W. Young
Hamburg banco, the system of reckoning of the Hamburg Bank.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
We have a decimal system of reckoning, we count by tens; why then should we divide the day and night into twelve hours each, instead of into ten or some multiple of ten?
From Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition by L. W. (Leonard William) King
