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Daily Archives: October 23, 2011
Could this video also be about the rest of us?
Sometime between 2500 BC and 2000 BC, humanity took a giant leap forward, as our ancestors started understanding that numbers were pure abstractions and that one system alone was enough to count everything, i.e., the same number can be applied to … Continue reading
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