Initial AUC stands for Asset Under Construction in Real
Estate...
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Area under curve
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Increase .
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Romans counted time from "Ab Urbe Condita" (AUC) [that's actually misleading but it'll do for now], not as we do from BC/AD. AD 1 would be AUC 754, and 247AD is the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Rome.