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How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes (newscientist.com)
37 points by DamonHD on May 7, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



The author of the book 'Numbers and the Making of' Usis Caleb Everett son of Daniel Everett

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Everett


The article had TWO popups to close before I got to it and then it asked for "permission to show notifications".

I closed it instead,


Interesting. Doesn't do that to me (or I wouldn't have posted the link). Possibly because I have NoScript.




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