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THIS LECTURE LOOKS at the different ways in which numbers can be expressed and the importance of zero. As examples it considers the Egyptian, Babylonian, and Roman systems. It also considers representations in different bases and tests for divisibility. It concludes by encountering Fermat’s Little Theorem involving prime numbers and modular arithmetic.
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Barnes, J. (2016). Notations. In: Nice Numbers. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46831-0_6
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