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  2. Tally stick - Wikipedia

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    Tally stick. Medieval English split tally stick (front and reverse view). The stick is notched and inscribed to record a debt owed to the rural dean of Preston Candover, Hampshire, of a tithe of 20 d each on 32 sheep, amounting to a total sum of £2 13s. 4d. A tally stick (or simply tally[1]) was an ancient memory aid device used to record and ...

  3. List of films set in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    2020-. Chronicles the illegitimate Heron son of Zeus, a young man tasked with saving heaven and earth despite the interference of a vengeful goddess and her monstrous forces. Clash of the Titans. 1981. Clash of the Titans. 2010. Colossus and the Amazon Queen. 1960. peplum film.

  4. Theodorus of Cyrene - Wikipedia

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    Theodorus of Cyrene (Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ Κυρηναῖος, translit. Theódōros ho Kyrēnaîos) was an ancient Greek mathematician who lived during the 5th century BC. The only first-hand accounts of him that survive are in three of Plato 's dialogues: the Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman. In the former dialogue, he posits ...

  5. Tally marks - Wikipedia

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    Tally marks, also called hash marks, are a form of numeral used for counting. They can be thought of as a unary numeral system. They are most useful in counting or tallying ongoing results, such as the score in a game or sport, as no intermediate results need to be erased or discarded. However, because of the length of large numbers, tallies ...

  6. Timeline of ancient Greek mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    Timeline. Historians traditionally place the beginning of Greek mathematics proper to the age of Thales of Miletus (ca. 624–548 BC), which is indicated by the green line at 600 BC. The orange line at 300 BC indicates the approximate year in which Euclid 's Elements was first published. The red line at 300 AD passes through Pappus of ...

  7. Greek mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Greek mathematics refers to mathematics texts and ideas stemming from the Archaic through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, mostly from the 5th century BC to the 6th century AD, around the shores of the Mediterranean. [1][2] Greek mathematicians lived in cities spread over the entire region, from Anatolia to Italy and North Africa, but were ...

  8. Euclid - Wikipedia

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    Euclid (/ ˈ j uː k l ɪ d /; Greek: Εὐκλείδης; fl. 300 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. [2] Considered the "father of geometry", [3] he is chiefly known for the Elements treatise, which established the foundations of geometry that largely dominated the field until the early 19th century.

  9. Sieve of Eratosthenes - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the sieve of Eratosthenes is an ancient algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to any given limit. It does so by iteratively marking as composite (i.e., not prime) the multiples of each prime, starting with the first prime number, 2. The multiples of a given prime are generated as a sequence of numbers starting from that ...