Early civilization used hand, heart, arrow symbols to represent distances
By Clara Moskowitz – LiveScience
Long known for their cool circular calendars and practice of human sacrifice, Aztecs were also math whizzes.
Aztecs used hand, heart and arrow symbols to represent fractional distances when calculating areas of land, scientists have discovered. The researchers pored over Aztec agricultural manuscripts trying to understand how the indigenous people arrived at area calculations. Only when they factored in the pictorial glyphs did the figures make sense. Read the rest of this entry »
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