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I just saw a video about BC/AD as opposed to BCE/CE and the invention of the Gregorian calendar and I wondered what year it would be if we counted the years like the Romans did.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

If we counted years from the reign of the Yellow Emperor using Sun Yat-sen's approach, this year would be 4722.