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The author counts years from the founding of Rome (ab urbe condita or AUC), so subtract 753 to get the AD year. Or: yes, this is a recent blog post.
by Scaevolus 6y ago
The author counts years from the founding of Rome (ab urbe condita or AUC), so subtract 753 to get the AD year.
Or: yes, this is a recent blog post.
- mysterEFrank 6y agoobnoxious
- emsy 6y agoI can see how the author thinks this is quirky but actually it’s just a mental obstacle that tripped me up while reading.
- dTal 6y agoYeah, and he really didn't need to mention year dates 5 times in two paragraphs either. You can tell he's making excuses to flex his new quirk.
- baking 6y agoIf I wanted to write a blog post that I could be sure no one would ever finish reading, I would do just this. (Or maybe just to screen out randoms from Hacker News. Genius!)
- hoseja 6y agoI find the +10k alternative epoch much nicer.
- orbital-decay 6y agoThanks. For a moment I was horrified that C++ made it into 2770.
- DavidVoid 6y agoDoes he ever give a justification or reason for this?
- HALtheWise 6y agohttps://roblesnotes.com/blog/ab-urbe-condita/ https://roblesnotes.com/blog/ab-urbe-condita/