There’s a Winnie the Pooh song about counting. “Counting, counting, numbers are for counting…” the wise Owl sung to little Roo who was trying to help Pooh to count his honey pots for the party. Counting is an integral part of our lives today. We count our income and our expenses, we count calories and the […]
Super fast counting to produce super large numbers—the art of the abacus!
London (2017): An ancient Indian manuscript, dating back to the third century, has revealed the oldest recorded use of ‘zero’ – pushing back one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of mathematics back by over 500 years, Oxford scientists say. Bakhshali manuscript was found in 1881, buried in a field in what was then […]
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Venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants have the ability to count, according to a new study. The discovery adds to the growing body of evidence that certain plants possess many animal-like abilities, even though they do not have brains. In this case, it is now known that meat-eating plants can count to at least five. […]
“Much like today’s tablets, writing at length on the world’s first tablets was a pain in the neck. Fire-hardened clay tablets were really only convenient for scribbles and straight lines, just enough for simple accounting with graphic symbols and tick marks. “Words, in a sense, began with numbers” says Peter Watson in his superb book […]
The early Egyptian records, from around 1800 BC, show a decimal system where objects represent the powers of ten (1,10,100, etc.). In this pictorial system there was no sign for zero or for decimals. Here is an example: and how it was used… Article source and more information on this remarkable mathematical culture here
