Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

Raymond A. Brown wrote:
>
>No. Arabic numerals certainly made mathematics a whole lot easier, but the
>ancient Greeks, for example, were doing pretty serious arithmetic centuries
>before their introduction.  And Roman engineering also needed some quite
>serious mathematics!
And Egyptians, if I'm well informed, didn't have a practical way to
multiply numbers (they didn't use a positional system, that's for sure).
And nevertheless they calculated awfully well (not only for the Pyramids).
[These exact calculations and other things have led some people to affirm
they were helped by aliens. I think the human mind is surprising when it
comes to great deeds.]


--Pablo Flores

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