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Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Leesa on July 17, 2003 14:23:02 UTC |
You should check out a book on the history of mathematics. I read (don't remember the title) in one of them about the ancient Egyptians and how their number's system was very different from ours. There was a part of the book where they showed an Egyptian hyroglyphic, with numbers that added up to 32. It took about five pages to explain how they did it. It was done in fractions, not whole numbers. But to them, they were just as whole as ours. But because we run on a decimal system and they didn't, counting to 32 was immensely different. I wish I could find that book now and quote the english part of the passage. The point is, 2+2 does not equal four in everybody's mathematical system. It is relevant to the system being used.
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