section_path: Conversion between cyclic years and Western years/Shorter equivalent method
section_name: Shorter equivalent method
paragraph_text: Shorter equivalent method
  
  Start from the AD year (1967), take directly the remainder mod 60, and look into column AD of the table "Sexagenary years" (just above).
  
  Remainder is therefore 47 and the AD column says 'Fire Goat ' as it should be.
  
  For a BC year: discard the minus sign, take the remainder of the year mod 60 and look into column BC. Applied to year -246, this gives:
  
  When doing these conversions, year 246 BC cannot be treated as −246 AD due to the lack of a year 0 in the Gregorian AD/BC system.