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Ancient Advances In Mathematics
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Ancient knowledge of the sciences was often wrong and wholly
unsatisfactory by modern standards. However not all of the knowledge of the
more learned peoples of the past was false. In fact without people like Euclid
or Plato we may not have been as advanced in this age as we are. Mathematics i ....
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.... scale based on ten,
consisting of limitless repetitions of the first ten number sounds.
Undoubtedly, if nature had given man thirteen fingers instead of ten,
our number system would be much changed. For instance, with a base thirteen
number system we would call fifteen, two-thirteen's. While some intelligent and
well-schooled scholars might argue whether or not base ten is the most adequate
number system, base ten is the irreversible favorite among all the nations.
Of course, primitive man m.... |
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