18771942

18771942 is a compact date notation often treated as a shorthand for a biographical lifespan, indicating birth year 1877 and death year 1942. In standard typography the range is typically written with an en dash as 1877–1942. The uninterrupted string may appear in data records, filenames, or digitized texts when punctuation is omitted or lost during transcription, OCR processing, or limited data schemas.

In biographical and archival contexts, such a notation helps identify individuals who share a name and provides quick historical framing for their life and work. It can also appear in catalog records to disambiguate subjects and to support chronological sorting. Outside of person entries, the same numeric pattern could represent the active years of an author, a practitioner, a movement, or the duration of a project, depending on accompanying metadata.

Interpreting 18771942 relies on context. When associated with a person, it generally means birth year 1877 and death year 1942. Some datasets store the values separately as birth_year=1877 and death_year=1942, enabling clearer queries and display. Ambiguities arise if context is missing, such as mistaking the digits for a single year, a code, or a different era. Normalization routines commonly convert the string to a standard form like 1877–1942 for consistency across systems.

See also: date notation, lifespan, bibliographic records, data normalization.