140. Num8er5
The Allusionist
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The Last Number System That We're Ever Going to Have Forever
The way we express with numerals and letters just keeps on shifting. It's the height of arrogance to imagine that a thousand or two thousand or three thousand years from now we're still going to be using the same notation, he says. "It's never the case historically that a single system has just dominated the entire world" He adds: 'This is the last number system that we're ever going to have forever'
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