The invention of numbers
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Tomac in Japan, the Study of Mathematics
The study of mathematics didn't come until later than we're talking about in europe. Why did that take so long? That's a very curious part of my research. Ad japan had the civil wards from 14 67 all the way till like, the beginning of the seventeenth century. So that education system was not that developed. The one of the oldest text books that we can find now in japan could be the one called the book of division.
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