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Naming is Hard

The Array Cast

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The History of Notation

The Roman numeral system is definitely a base 10. We get we I think there have been some studies that find that people can count to eight or so. So it makes sense to stop will before that, especially if you're doing base 10 then sure stop halfway there. And and the same thing goes for that system that Bob was mentioning it also starts off by going up to five by just adding vertical slanted lines. Once you had five it starts going another horizontally instead.

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