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The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The solution exists for a compromise between Republicans and Democrats—and it’s all in the numbers. Let me finish tonight with this. We have been left a great number system. It was developed by Arab ...