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on wood. So just say you were a shepherd and you had 50 sheep. Before numbers, there's no way of saying you've got 50 sheep apart from maybe having 50 pebbles in your pocket
or a staff with 50 notches on it. And then they thought, "Well why don't we make these little clay pieces," they didn't think this, this sort of emerged. They're these clay pieces
with different patterns on and each pattern referred to a different amount. So just say you had 50 sheep you could make this pattern say, "Well this is how much I've got." So
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