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1) What traditional operations does arithmetics include?
2) When does the history of arithmetics go back to?
3) What is the prehistory of arithmetics limited to?
4) When do the first numerals descend from?
5) What tools did the ancients use?
6) What concept contributed to simpler and more efficient methods of calculation?
7) How did the ancient Greeks and Chinese operate with units, tens, hundreds when they lacked a symbol for zero?
8) What algorithms did the ancient Greeks know?
9) How did their notation look like?
10) What origin is our system of notation?
11) Who from the ancients came closer to the present-day system of notation?
12) What approach replaced all the systems of notations?
13) Who spread the new system of notation throughout Europe?
14) How did he evaluate the discovery of the Indians in his book?
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| Notation systems of the future Ancient artifacts of arithmetics Calculator – a look from time immemorial |
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| Sir Isaac Newton, Galilei, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Archimedes of Syracuse, Nikola Tesla, Leonhard Euler, Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Thomas Edison, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Euclid. |
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