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To: elli1
OTOH, it sure as heck took a long time for ''superior cultures'' to decipher the Incan calculator.

Huge difference. Numerical and language systems are quite arbitrary. The wheel and other physical systems are not.

54 posted on 02/03/2004 9:05:10 AM PST by edsheppa
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To: edsheppa
Huge difference. Numerical and language systems are quite arbitrary. The wheel and other physical systems are not.

True. However, my point was that the invention of the wheel was a lower tech achievement than (apparently) the numbers system of the Incas and that it is short-sighted to measure a civilization's techonological worthiness soley on whether or not that civilization used the wheel.

68 posted on 02/03/2004 11:09:31 AM PST by elli1
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