Friday, February 4, 2011

Much ado about QQC 5

Even through, I'm not a fan of numbers. I find them interesting. Theres a funny part about this article. That during ancient times, the people who knew how to count were regarded as magicians or shamen. The tribes people thought that they had magical counting skills. THe people who knew how to count used the ability to their advantage, especially during wars against other tribes. For example, the tribe A sent 15 men to go off to war and after that war tribe A lost 15 men. So the leader of tribe A would ask tribe B for a fair compensation. Tribe A would ask for 15 buffalo for all of the 15 warriors that were killed in the war. I'm more interested in Arabic numerals. I've always been told that the Arabs were the first ones to discover numbers. These numbers weren't written the same way they are written today.

I also that if you look a number like 1, for example, you can tell it has one angle and then number 2 would have 2 angles. Three would have three angles and so on.

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