Watch: History of Number Systems

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Why should you watch this?

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? This video provides a brief history of numerical systems. This video is optional and you do not need to take notes.