Australian scientists have compared an ancient Greek technique of memorizing data to an even older technique from Aboriginal culture, using students in a rural medical school. The study found that students using a technique called the memory palace, in which they memorized facts by placing t...
different systems must have coexisted for many years. But decimal place value must have been in use (at least among mathematical professionals) no later than the early 1st millenniumce. This is illustrated, for example, in a 3rd-century-ceSanskritadaptationof a Greek astrological text that uses...