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Thousands of years before recorded history, herdskeepers kept track of their cattle or sheep by means of notches on a “tally stick.” More efficient notations for the concepts “one,” “two,” “three,” were developed by the ancient Egyptians, Romans, Chinese, and others. And these eventually evolved into the familiar decimal notation.
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Driver, R.D. (1984). Binary Arithmetic. In: Why Math?. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1108-2_10
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