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Mr. Ellis Hintz

Feb 20, 2025

To solve problems about spans of time that include B.C. and A.D. dates, you would need to use which numbers?

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Abbie Toy

Feb 20, 2025

Negative? Years BC are essentially “negative AD years”.... Show More
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Abbie Toy

Feb 20, 2025

The important point is that there is no year 0. 1 BC is followed immediately by 1 AD. The difference between the two is one year. proceeding by examples;2014 AD – 2013 AD = 1 year (assuming always the same date in the two years)44 BC – 40 BC = 4 years (duration is always expressed as an absolute value) 1488 AD – 756 BC = abs(756 BC – 1 BC) + 1 + abs(1488 AD – 1 AD) + 1 = 2243 yearsor you can use the formula X AD + Y BC – 1... Show More
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Abbie Toy

Feb 20, 2025

One other thing to remember in dates: There was no year zero. Right now, we are in the year 2014. 2013 years ago, we were in the year 1 although no one called it that at the time. The year before that we were in 1 B.C. If you try to line up time on a standard number line, there seems to be a hole in the middle. We don’t name time exactly the way we name other linear sequences.... Show More
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