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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> comp.databases.theory -> Re: innovation
Laconic2 wrote:
> There were Greek numerals before Roman numerals.
> The representation system is even less developed than Roman.
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> Also, I think there are two steps between Roman and Arabic:
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> The inclusion of zero as a cipher, and place value notation.
This is one way of looking at the example. Try looking at it from a learning / unlearning angle.
[snip dot] (no that's not slashdot ;-) Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 07:02:23 CDT
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