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
But the Lord has His own system of reckoning compound interest, and His ways of paying are not our ways.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Jackson, Helen Hunt
Over eleven months, by our system of reckoning.
From The Blind Spot by Hall, Austin
For a time the system of reckoning by the mark threatened to replace it, but in 1313 it was again authorised by Philippe le Bel.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
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 King, L. W. (Leonard William)
