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by rolux
4442 days ago
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"By the 1st century B.C.E., the Roman calendar had become hopelessly confused." At least one can treat the years in that period as numbers. For why Roman years before 300 B.C.E. have to be handled as names, not numbers, and should never be used in arithmetic operations, see Peter Paul Koch's excellent essay "Making <time> safe for historians": http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_... |
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