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— Anonymous

“The Greeks, meanwhile, explicitly rejected zero. Since their mathematical system was based on geometry, numbers had to represent space of one sort or another—length,…

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— Willem Witteveen

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— Jared Diamond

“As for astronomy, the Greeks did not accept their own or any of the original mythologies with which they came in contact. The refusal…

— George Bailey

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