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The invention of numbers
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The Basics of Numbers and Numbers
bases in amazonia are also esoteric and a bit unusual. The basic system is interesting, but it seems to come from the way that some of these groups store yams. So this is one of the few cases we see where a base system was invented,. A number system wasn't developed based on human anatomy. Some of the early symbol systems are actually rather awkward for working with ye look at roman numerals. They 're a completely crazy system.
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