![]() ![]() The leaves of the tree read: “Egypt I (hieroglyphic),” “Aztecs”, “Greece I (attic),” “Rome”, “Sumer,” “Egypt III (hieratic),” “China I (oracle-bones),” and so on. ![]() Similarly, the structure of Geneviève Guitel’s Histoire Comparée derives from a classification of the numeration systems she considers. For instance, Georges Ifrah’s monograph is organized as: ‘Numbers of Sumer’, ‘The Development of Written Numerals in Elam and Mesopotamia’, ‘Mesopotamian Numbering after the Eclipse of Sumer’, ‘The Numbers of Ancient Egypt’, ‘Greek and Roman Numerals’, ‘The Numbers of Chinese Civilisation’, and so on. Beyond the differences between books of this kind, they all share a similar structure. The world history of numeration systems is a subject on which many synthetical books are available today, such as Georges Ifrah’s The Universal History of Numbers and Geneviève Guitel’s Histoire comparée des numérations écrites ( Comparative History of Written Numerations), on which the former draws. A Widespread Assumption in the Histories of Numbers ![]()
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