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The story of numbers → Diff

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Revision 2 by WorkBot July 16, 2010
Revision 3 by eacybl February 29, 2020
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0 Tells of early man's first need to count, the influence of agriculture and herding on the development of the tally, and numerical systems from Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Rome, and India.
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0 Egypt
1 Mesopotamia
2 China
3 Rome
4 and India