The Forum The invention of numbers
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Mar 10, 2022 From ancient tally marks and Babylonian base 60 to the arrival of zero in Europe, numbers have a surprisingly tangled history. Explore cultures that count without number words, why small quantities come naturally to us, and how infinity, quirky number beliefs and even a rocket crash reveal numbers’ far-reaching role.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Why Are Numbers So Important?
01:38 • 2min
Counting and Numbers - Which One Did You Think Came First?
03:19 • 2min
Counting Rods in the Early Periods
05:02 • 3min
Are Numbers as Symbols?
07:46 • 2min
What Is a Base System?
09:39 • 2min
The Basics of Numbers and Numbers
11:29 • 2min
The Concept of Zero
13:24 • 2min
How Did the Hindo Numbers Come to Europe?
14:55 • 2min
Is the Decimal System Really Better?
16:39 • 2min
What More Can You Tell Us About Pythagoreans?
18:38 • 2min
Tomac in Japan, the Study of Mathematics
20:41 • 2min
Multiplication Is Like in and Division Is Like Yan
22:11 • 2min
The Petaha, Are They a Numeric?
23:59 • 2min
Is There Something Special About Three and Below?
26:04 • 2min
How Many Orange Walk? How Many Green Block?
27:58 • 2min
Is Infinity Really a Number?
29:40 • 2min
How Does the Number System in Brazil Affect Us?
31:59 • 3min
No Vagueness in Numbers
34:38 • 2min
A Space Rocket Crashed Because of an Overflow Problem
36:29 • 2min
The History of Numbers
38:04 • 2min