In a message dated 10/8/2002 3:50:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student)" <RuhlenR at missouri.edu> writes: > Here's what I've found: > He says it occurred nearly a full cycle before the > Interregnum, about 10,000 years, [...] > 10,000 years is an awfully short time for a full cycle. > The shortest reign is 17*17, or 289 years [...] The > longest is 17*17*17, 4913, for an average of 2601. The > shortest possible *cycle* is 4913 (17 Houses, 289 years > each). An average cycle is 44,217. The average isn't neccessarily the median. And Vlad's just giving a very rough estimate, so getting within an order of magnitude is good enough. Note that in the passage where he discusses the min/max reigns, he's way off for the max. --KG