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    The document describes ancient counting and record keeping methods used by illiterate shepherds. Shepherds would notch sticks to represent various metrics like the number and types of animals owned, births, and dairy products. A literate person would then inscribe each stick with the owner's name. This register system allowed shepherds to intuitively count and track information over time, forming the basis for mathematical and logical thinking, even without being able to read or write.

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    The document describes ancient counting and record keeping methods used by illiterate shepherds. Shepherds would notch sticks to represent various metrics like the number and types of animals owned, births, and dairy products. A literate person would then inscribe each stick with the owner's name. This register system allowed shepherds to intuitively count and track information over time, forming the basis for mathematical and logical thinking, even without being able to read or write.

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    The document describes ancient counting and record keeping methods used by illiterate shepherds. Shepherds would notch sticks to represent various metrics like the number and types of animals owned, births, and dairy products. A literate person would then inscribe each stick with the owner's name. This register system allowed shepherds to intuitively count and track information over time, forming the basis for mathematical and logical thinking, even without being able to read or write.

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    16 - Math and Logic Games

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    The document describes ancient counting and record keeping methods used by illiterate shepherds. Shepherds would notch sticks to represent various metrics like the number and types of animals owned, births, and dairy products. A literate person would then inscribe each stick with the owner's name. This register system allowed shepherds to intuitively count and track information over time, forming the basis for mathematical and logical thinking, even without being able to read or write.

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    of 3

    Games with numbers

    What numbers are. man was appointed to inscr be


    The photographs (left) show three each stick with certain sgns
    Munich beer mats, on which waiters indicating its owner's name and the
    mark each beer ordered by the type of animals he possessed
    customer The bill is then tallied by
    simply mu tiplying the price of one
    glass times the number of marks on
    the mat Such methods are ancient heads of beasts each
    and date back to the mythical member owned,
    origins of mathematics
    The notion of a mark
    II
    corresponding to a unit eventual y
    produced the natural, or counting
    numbers In order to simplify
    births
    counting operations a special set of
    symbols was gradualy devised
    namely what are known as ciphers,
    figures or numerals Natura
    numbers were used in barter
    (exchanging one artice for another)
    and in childrens games where males
    objects were classif ed, put in
    sequence or set out according to
    rules of proximity, continuity and
    boundary es
    r1
    From the natural numbers and the
    operation of adding, man has
    gradually constructed the entire
    system of numbers (of pp. 21, 104)
    as wel as the other calculating
    w dairy products, curd,
    cheese, etc

    operations (note that, formally, the While the number of adult


    positive integers are ratios of animals was almost constant for a
    natural numbers to the natural year, dairy products and new births
    number 1, a definition that was not varied from month to month (males
    put forth until the 19th century) were sold, females were kept), so
    Opposite: A register used by the register was updated every
    illiterate Sicilian shepherds By month
    notching sticks the shepherds Although the people who used
    indicated the number of an ma s- this instrument could nether read
    sheep or goats-each owned, the nor write, they cou o count intuitive y
    animals' births, the dairy products and they correated signs and
    produced and so on This calendar, objects in a highly complex fashion
    valid from September 1st for one Instruments such as this form the
    year, was sett ed every August 31st basis of mathematical and logica
    As the date approached, a literate thinking.

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