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In [[Flancia]] we'll meet

The time has come to run [[collect]] on this wall; to erase some items and make room for new ones :)

In [[Flancia]] we'll meet

TIL about years [[ab urbe condita]], or since the founding of Rome, a standard once common among historians, in particular in the middle ages and Renaissance.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_urbe_

In [[Flancia]] we'll meet

You add 753 to the Common Era year. This has the nice side effect that even numbered CE years have a chance of being prime in AUC. Indeed this is the case for 2024 CE: 2777 AUC is prime.

Matt Noyes

@flancian Interesting! And today I also learned the term regnal years. When I lived in Japan, I had to get used to identifying my birth year as Showa 30, the 30th year of the reign of the Showa emperor...

In [[Flancia]] we'll meet

If you like [[Flancia]], please boost!

If you don't like it and you want to share why, that is equally amazing :D

Thank you in any case!

In [[Flancia]] we'll meet

Apparently at some point there existed an Etherpad variant called [[Piratepad]] that supported [[wikilinks]] natively, but it's since disappeared pretty thoroughly from the internet.

wiki.c2.com/?PiratePad is a still alive mention/quick review of it.

In [[Flancia]] we'll meet

TIL about [[cistercian numerals]], which can encode any integer up to 9999 in one glyph: kottke.org/23/01/cistercian-nu

(via HN)

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@flancian That's very interesting, especially that if you consider that excluding 3, 4 and 5, the system is pretty close to binary!

tumper

@flancian It has the interesting property that any 4 digit number's reverse is its symbol rotated 180 degrees.

In [[Flancia]] we'll meet

"It is not me, but you, who will likely slay [[Moloch]]."

-- from the Chronicles of Flancia, 2023.

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