A brief history of numerical systems - Alessandra King

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Numerical Reasoning Numerals Counting Math Systems Math Practice
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A brief history of numerical systems - Alessandra King

TED-Ed Lesson: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... and 0. With just these ten symbols, we can write any rational number imaginable. But why these particular symbols? Why ten of them? And why do we arrange them the way we do? Alessandra King gives a brief history of numerical systems.
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Alessandra King
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TED-Ed

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