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Re: Numbers

I can not imagine commerce (or tax collecting and other
administrative activities) without simple arithmetic.

On Monday, Nov 3, 2003, at 21:43 US/Pacific, Jim Green wrote:

That history lecturer from UCLA seemed to say tonight that in the
Middle
Ages people paid little attention to counting let alone arithmetic --
and
that there is not much value in the numbers eg time spans -- given in
historical accounts.

When did counting begin?

When did simple arithmetic begin?