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== Quote from strawberry (zac.carey@gmail.com)'s article
> I'm creating a table of objects, including their year of manufacture.
> In some cases the year of manufacture will be very precise, '1855',
> say. In other cases the year will be much more vague - 'circa 1830',
> '1780 - 1820' or even 'early 19th century'. Indeed, as the objects get
> more ancient, I can well imagine that their ages become much less
> precise. Just wondered if anyone had any suggestions about ways of
> storing this kind of information.