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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.... man were not many. When the
need to count over ten aroused, he simply combined the number-sounds related
with his fingers. So, if he wished to define one more than ten, he simply said
one-ten. Thus our word eleven is simply a modern form of the Teutonic ein-lifon.
Since those first sounds were created, man has only added five new basic
number-sounds to the ten primary ones. They are “hundred,” “thousand,” “
million,” “billion” (a thousand millions in America, a millio ....
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