When was the Roman calendar created? When was the modem invented? When was math invented? When was the projector invented? When was the baseball bat invented? When was the pacemaker invented? When was the calendar invented in Mesopotamia?
Your day is ruled by minutes and seconds,but these entities are not real in any physical sense and are nonexistent tonumberless people. Minutes and seconds are the verbal and written vestiges ofan uncommon base-60 number system used in Mesopotamia millennia ago. Theyreside in our minds, ...
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the 7,000 or so languages that exist today vary dramaticallyinhowtheyutilizenumbers. Speakers ofanumeric,ornumberless, languages offer awindowintohow theinvention of numbersreshapedthehuman experience.Inanewbook,Iexplored thewaysinwhichhumans inventednumbers,andhownumberssubsequentlyplayedacriticalroleinother...