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No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Ancient Cilosophy of Zero

merchants europe picked up on this under belly of arabic numbers and realized it's much easier to use them in secret e. So they'd flash zeros at each other, which meant, i use arabic Numbers. That's an ancient cilosophy its thats definitely, i think, where that trace is back to ye ye. There was a guy called johan martin zacharias desa. He was garman. And he once multiplied two 20 digit numbers together in six minutes - considered extremely good at the time. Didn't adopt iti. As james said, a sort of early renaissance, well, mad renaissanceand r i was reading quite

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