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Romans used letters to denote natural numbers. Language of modern computers utilizes binary representation. Here we describe different ways to represent natural numbers, ending the chapter with an important theorem about prime numbers, already known to Euclid (300 BC).
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Mazzola, G., Mannone, M., Pang, Y. (2016). Euclid and Normal Forms. In: Cool Math for Hot Music. Computational Music Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42937-3_9
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