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When civilizations sprung up in ancient time, the need for numbers arose. Questions of ‘which one’ and ‘how many’ required symbols to represent the answers. These systems made it easier for people to keep track of numbers and the uses to which they were put. Some systems had more symbols than others. The history of number systems introduced by advanced states of human society is a fascinating study.
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