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SciShow Tangents

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The History of Number Theory

Mathematicians have been around for a while. Since the Greek and Latin days. Pythagoras is probably using the word number or a version of it in Latin. It just means like a quantity, a total or a sum or a quantity or a collection of things. So who's the smarter one? We picked a word and then stuck with it.

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