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Number systems have been used since pre-historic times. Basic arithmetic probably preceded human beings: for example when a pack of animals would determine whether their numbers were greater than those of their enemies and so decide whether to attack or escape.

The modern formal number system is based on definitions by Richard Dedekind in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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