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Math before numbers? Archaeologists find earliest evidence

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured counting, even though no written numerals existed at the time. The claim is bold: ...
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Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them

Jeremiah Bartz owns shares in Nvidia. A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like ...