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May 7, 2013May 7, 2013 loganj tidbits

The Incas and certain other pre Columbian tribes in Peru developed the Decimal System hundreds of years before it was used in Europe.
http://www.skygaze.com/content/facts/math.shtml

In 594 AD decimal notation is used for numbers in India. This is the system on which our current notation is based.

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