On reflection, your response is more sensible than mine.
applied mathematics has a parts bin. pure mathematics more of a hierarchy
and economics uses applied mathematics.
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There were several men called Zeno, but the Zeno who proposed these paradoxes lived in Magna Graecia, a greek colony in Italy.
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I ftfy
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Writing in Ogham. Suspicious.
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Anyway those guys were named ĪĪ®Ī½ĻĪ½ and not ĪĪ®Ī½ĻĪ½, because the word is xenophobe.
But Iām sure everyone knew that.
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Actually, research tends to show that people can subitize up to four items, although that doesnāt necessarily affect your argument about the naming of numbers; itās just that four is on the boundary, rather than just past it.
An interesting question would be whether this figure is different for modern people than for cultures that hadnāt discovered counting. Some people (most famously Julian Jaynes) have theorised that the fundamental architecture of human mindsā stuff we usually assume to be hardwiredā has evolved significantly even in just the last few thousand years.
I mean, not this revolting plane bitch, obviously, sheās still around the Australopithecus stage.
Iāve never heard of Julian Jaynes, and I would be astonished if that was the case. Now if you argued that the brainās early years plasticity meant that a modern upbringing has different results from a hunter-gatherer upbringing I wouldnāt argue with that. IQ tests have shown that the ability to do abstract thought has risen considerably since they first appeared - but that is very obviously not evolution at work.
On the other hand, from the point of view of technical ability given the infrastructure and knowledge to hand, I would be amazed if the people who built Stonehenge, Ggantija or the Mesopotamian city states (and their recording systems) were significantly different from us. Those recording systems were databases using abstraction.
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Macaulay: āAs every schoolboy knowsā¦ā
(The point was he was writing in a magazine and the papers had been full of what he was writing about, but a hundred and fifty years or so later nobody remembered this.)
He was caught with weapons of math instruction!
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You beat me to it!
Xena, on the other hand, is a warrior princess.
Hence, xenaphobia, or in the masculine form, xenophobia; the irrational fear of sexually ambiguous ass-kickers.
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Nope-- words is just words; we all own 'em all.
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