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Re: Numbers



The Roman's had their famous numerals.

ALL cultures counted days and moon cycles to some degree.
Hence the week corresponding to each of the four moon phases.
Rome had weeks of 8 (eight!) days for a while - so counting WAS a bit
primitive.
The astrologers in Julius Caesar's time counted and calculated well
enough to come up with the Leap Year approximation - needed to keep
the seasons fixed in the civil calendar.

The counting of paces was always important to determine distances.

At 10:43 PM -0700 11/3/03, 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?

Jim


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