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  2. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    The first row has been interpreted as the prime numbers between 10 and 20 (i.e., 19, 17, 13, and 11), while a second row appears to add and subtract 1 from 10 and 20 (i.e., 9, 19, 21, and 11); the third row contains amounts that might be halves and doubles, though these are inconsistent. [14]

  3. Date and time notation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This order is used in both the traditional all-numeric date (e.g., "1/21/24" or "01/21/2024") and the expanded form (e.g., "January 21, 2024"—usually spoken with the year as a cardinal number and the day as an ordinal number, e.g., "January twenty-first, twenty twenty-four"), with the historical rationale that the year was often of lesser ...

  4. One-name study - Wikipedia

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    A one-name study is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Studies may have a number of family trees which have no link with each other. Findings from a one-name study are useful to genealogists. Onomasticians, who study the etymology, meaning and geographic origin of names, also draw on the macro perspective provided by a one ...

  5. Kushim (Uruk period) - Wikipedia

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    A clay tablet detailing a trade transaction contains one of the first examples of rebus writing. [2] It reads "28,086 [a] measures barley 37 months Kushim." This may be interpreted as having been signed by "Kushim." [1] [4] As of 1993, Kushim's name was known to appear in 18 separate Proto-cuneiform clay tablets from the period. [5] [6]

  6. Given name - Wikipedia

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    A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name [1] that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname.

  7. Praenomen - Wikipedia

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    The names derived from numbers are the most certain. The masculine names Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius and Decimus, and the feminine names Prima, Secunda, Tertia, Quarta, Quinta, Sexta, Septima, Octavia, Nona and Decima are all based on ordinal numerals. There may also have been a praenomen Nonus, as there was a gens with the apparently ...

  8. History of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past.Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales.

  9. Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Time period. c. 1050–150 BC [a] ... It was one of the first alphabets, ... Origin Letter Name [21] Meaning Phoneme Trans­literation