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From the Vault: Where do numbers come from?

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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I Want to Have the Riddle Solved, Right?

There is no consensus on exactly what this is and how it was used. It's possible that there could be aspects of this piece of ology that simply haven't survived. We don't know how the individual uses it in congruous with otherk counting techniques. There have already been some interesting ones, like i mentioned, ar that it may have to do with a lunar calendar or calendar of some sort. Or that it may represent a possible acounting aid, or or multiplication aid based on other base counting systems,. In which number 12 would be very significant. I mean, i i feel like i'm going to have to keep my eyes peeled for for new papers on this

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