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As soon as cavemen started trading handfuls of corn for women or bags of meat,
they were using integers. They didn't know it, however, because the word hadn't
been invented yet. It was several centuries, indeed millenia, before the word was
invented, but once it became available, it certainly made math a lot easier.
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