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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ErolGarip, post: 2842840, member: 88736&quot;]His that post is totally relevant to this topic in this thread. Upon your saying &quot;none of them (ancient Greek coins) had ANY numbers on them at all. Our ancestors must have been really smart to have sorted out all these denominations without having numbers on the coins...&quot;, he (Sailent) mentioned how they (ancient Greeks) were &quot;counting&quot; their coins, i.e. by weighing them... </p><p><br /></p><p>In this thread, any coins, from 10000... years old to 1 day old, can be mentioned here, historically/linguistically/mathematically/engineeringly/economically/etc as long as it is about &quot;numbers/counting&quot;, that&#039;s the heart of the money/coin... </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps, because he (that archaeology prof) couldn&#039;t have found any coin in the ruins? or because I have not sent any coin to him? When you had mentioned&nbsp; &quot;incomprehensibility in my English&quot; in some of your previous posts I had questioned &quot;how much money or how many money&quot; by staying in the topic and I&#039;d got a reply from the math prof who had said these: </p><p><br /></p><p>*** </p><p><br /></p><p>Erol,</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never heard the “how much” verses “how many” distinction before, it is not a standard way of differentiating the two.</p><p><br /></p><p>Typically countable, which can be infinite, means it can be counted (matched up to correspond to the natural numbers). Uncountable would involve what cannot be matched up to the natural numbers. All integers are countable, but all the numbers between 0 and 1 are uncountable.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Statistics we deal with the topics of discrete and continuous which all seem to relate to your question. Discrete means the data is countable while continuous means that the data is uncountable. All currency would be considered countable. In the U.S. while we have dollars, every amount can be counted in terms of cents. While other variables, like a person’s weight at a given instance, is continuous. We record weight as a discrete value, say 183 pounds, but a more precise measurement would give a more precise answer. We could measure weight to a tenth of a pound, a hundredth of a pound, or a thousandth of a pound which would give a more precise answer. But with currency, once we reach the smallest denomination used for that type of currency, more precise measurements do not produce a more precise number.</p><p><br /></p><p>xxxx </p><p>(name closed by Erol) </p><p><br /></p><p>*** </p><p><br /></p><p>So, he sent a reply. Can you imagine why!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>A part in his this email should be highlighted: &quot;... All currency would be considered countable. In the U.S. while we have dollars, every amount can be counted in terms of cents... &quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, it is not &quot;how much currency&quot;, but, it should (have) be(en) &quot;how many currency&quot;... So, &quot;Kentucky&quot;, learn English first before posting irrelevant off-topic posts here in this &quot;online academical research study in progress&quot; thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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