Topic: what is a number
Topic: number representation
Topic: number as a progression for counting and 1-1 relations
Topic: history of mathematics
Topic: sense perception
Topic: science as measurement
Topic: accounting
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Reference
Ifrah, G.,
The Universal History of Numbers.
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Notes
Translated from the French by D. Bellow, E.F. Harding, S. Wood, and I. Monk
Quotations
xix ;;Quote: use tally sticks or parts of your body to keep track of numbers; no need to count as we do
| xxii ;;Quote: positional notation independently discovered by Babylonians, Chinese, Mayan, and Indians
| 7 ;;Quote: beyond four, quantities are vague; must count to find out
| 65 ;;Quote: use twin tally sticks to record sums owed and settled; marked together with a saw
| 121 ;;Quote: early representation of division with remainder; tablet from 2650 BCE
| 152 ;;Quote: Babylonian astronomers used a sign for zero; about 311 BCE
| 399 ;;Quote: example of an Indian number using zero; sixth century
| 428 ;;Quote: Sanskrit possessed names for all powers of ten up to 10^8, and by 300 CE, 10^17; used the names to mark position
| 439 ;;Quote: In 628, Brahmagupta defined zero as the subtraction of a number by itself and listed its properties; a number multiplied by zero becomes zero
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