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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3382499, member: 57463"]A friend of mine is a retired university professor of art history who told me of her incomplete theory that we underwent (undergo) some kind of intellectual or epistemological evolution in understanding the world and expressing it in ever-larger numbers. She pointed out that "big" numbers such as 4, 5, 6, and 7... were invented only about 5000 to 4000 BCE. Soon, thereafter, however, came 100. The Greeks had myriad (100 x 100 = 10,000) or "banzai" in Japanese. As our knowledge of the universe stretched down to the atomic and up to the galactic, we created new words for the ever-larger numbers. </p><p><br /></p><p>If, for some reason, we could not have had milliards, we would have had to change the name of the currency and exchange old for new. That has been done, also, of course.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3382499, member: 57463"]A friend of mine is a retired university professor of art history who told me of her incomplete theory that we underwent (undergo) some kind of intellectual or epistemological evolution in understanding the world and expressing it in ever-larger numbers. She pointed out that "big" numbers such as 4, 5, 6, and 7... were invented only about 5000 to 4000 BCE. Soon, thereafter, however, came 100. The Greeks had myriad (100 x 100 = 10,000) or "banzai" in Japanese. As our knowledge of the universe stretched down to the atomic and up to the galactic, we created new words for the ever-larger numbers. If, for some reason, we could not have had milliards, we would have had to change the name of the currency and exchange old for new. That has been done, also, of course.[/QUOTE]
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