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 Fiske, John

Timaeus of Tauromenium was the author of a great work on Sicily, and introduced the system of reckoning by Olympiads.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

We have our system of reckoning, you know.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

According to the abjad system of reckoning, the numerical value of Tá is nine, which equals the numerical value of the name Bahá.

From The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh