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by detourdog 1052 days ago
Probably the migratory patterns were as import at as any other reason to travel.

What I seem to be noticing is that the ancients used calculus all the time but it was the geometric tools that they used.

This gave technology a form.

Arabic numerals made tabular data more useful leading to the more number based tools.

This seems to have removed the form from technology.