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27 December 2022: New visitors to sci.math: "Evolution" of number.

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by: Eram semper recta - Tue, 27 Dec 2022 15:10 UTC

https://www.academia.edu/93754586/_Evolution_of_number

Some excerpts:

Countless books have been published about number and how we realised the concept – ALL of them utter rubbish and useless ...
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And a proportion in three magnitudes is the minimum...
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At this stage, everything we talk about requires geometry, that is, drawing the line representations, ratios, etc. In order to move to a “diagram-less” theory, the concept of the abstract unit was introduced.
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To accomplish their goal, the Greeks carried over all the geometric properties of arithmetic to the abstract unit whose size and type is irrelevant.
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There is a prevailing misconception that Euclid did not define fractions, but ...

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