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A brief history of numerical systems by Alessandra King
21/02/2022 10:01 PM | Click to read full article
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... and 0. With just these ten symbols, we can write any rational number imaginable. But why these particular symbols? Why ten of them? And why do we arrange them the way we do?
Alessandra King gives a brief history of numerical systems.
