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...mber of written languages, and in some cases a single language had several systems.''' * The [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptians]]... had three systems of writing, with a numerical notation for each; the [[w:Ancient Greece|Gree ...

** "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals," section 11: The purpose of ordinal logics (193 ...machine in the form of an arabic numeral. The integer represented by this numeral may be called a ''description number'' (D.N) of the machine. The D.N determ ...

...years which elapsed before people had even thought of introducing into the numeral notation that Columbus-egg -- the zero; they will find it astounding that i ...sophy. Neo-Pythagoreanism and Neo-Platonism were the names of the modified systems. These stood, for a time, in opposition to Christianity. The study of Plato ...

...uages, including the language we use. ...the problem which dogs all formal systems, the problem of ''[[w:Self-reference|self-reference]]''; that is, the langu ...ntegra, Nuremberg, 1544, is said to have first used the signs + and -, and numeral exponents of powers. It is very singular that discoveries of the greatest ...