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Word: aurillac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Year CMXCVIIIJ were to roll over and show the year...well, something other than the Year M. [The lack of a zero can cause problems sometimes.] Luckily, few people were using the abacus, since it had only been introduced to Europe a few decades earlier by Gerbert of Aurillac, now Pope Sylvester II. [This is part of how you got to be Pope in those days. Want to make friends and influence people? Learn the abacus...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Last Column of the Millennium | 12/19/2000 | See Source »

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