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
Every one sees that there would be an astonishing simplification in this system of reckoning by tens—that the study of arithmetic would be immensely facilitated, and the business of the counting-house divested of puzzling calculations.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428 Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852 by Chambers, William
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 advantages of such a system of reckoning and nomenclature, as suggested in the recommendations which I now submit, will be, I think, self-evident.
Such a system of reckoning time was known anciently.
From The Last Reformation by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)
