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Numbers - Where did they come from?

Numbers - Where did they come from?

They are certainly older than the scraches on the Ishango bone, dated to be 20,000 years old.

I picked these because of the very interesting use of prime numbers. Did these people understand primes? If so then this bone is much more than a simple tally bone.. it represents a sophisticated understanding of numbers.

Almost spooky Goldbach like. And 20,000 years before Goldbach.

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