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Math before numbers? Archaeologists find earliest evidence

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...
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This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...