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Maria Started conversation May 12, 2014


A very interesting entry, and very useful for teachers. It helps as a way of introduction for some maths lessos(adapted, more or less) and also as a resource for a web quest.

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Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 12, 2014

You're welcome. Glad you like it.

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Willem Posted May 16, 2014

Hi, I want to say I enjoyed this entry as well! It's good to have all these systems discussed here together, comparing them. Very interesting how people thought about handling numbers.

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Baron Grim Posted May 19, 2014

Good entry.


Just to add a small note on primitive cultures and the commonly theorized number system they used of "one, two and many".

http://xkcd.com/764/

(be sure to hover your mouse over the image.)

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Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 19, 2014

Many early European languages had a duple case as well as singular and plural.

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