because they had less symbols they were smarter is a reach.
2026-09-01 21:43:53
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Darling Duck :
is he 100 percent sure it was Mayan math and not olmec?
2026-09-02 04:15:22
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Tiberius :
More elegant? Until you need to write 5 thousand flowers to express the number 25,000
2026-09-02 03:28:41
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albertchatigny :
3 symbols is great except that you have to write 7 different symbols to represent 19. 9 symbols for 234. That’s not elegant at all.
2026-09-01 23:19:56
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OCĒ ÑUÚ :
Dammm right! About time someone says it... The Mayan Time Sages were beyond the geniuses of today! They knew about the big bang and counted towards ad infinitum. 😌🙏🏽
2026-09-01 23:09:22
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Tecún Umán :
All the Americans and Europeans shitting on the Maya numerals but they dont even have one themselves that's why they use Arabic numerals 🤡
2026-09-02 00:52:45
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Apple User793429 :
This is a terrible take. Base ten allows interest calculations to be easy, that was a massive reason for the growth
2026-09-02 05:58:37
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SomeGuyOnThaInternet :
Oh yeah? Their math let them do lithography and determine quantum states?
2026-09-01 21:30:55
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T Luck :
so they would have to use 5 symbols to equal 9 when we only need 1
2026-09-01 21:53:51
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Dakota Higgins75 :
That's a pictograph system, though, are pictographs or numerical adaptations that we use to quantify numbers in between one and infinity. The pictograph system can only go up so high before you have to write so many characters t equal a trillion, but we have ways. To write out one point trillion
2026-09-02 07:57:12
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user7578280471021 :
They were a slave based society why don’t you bring that up.
2026-09-01 22:22:50
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TheDesertWaterPro :
The Sumerians base 60 was the first ever written.
2026-09-02 05:36:40
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Juman slappner :
The Aztecs were Caucasian
2026-09-02 02:57:51
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Kanad :
I'm sorry for those who say they invented the concept of zero. Even Babylonians Had a zero before mayans but they never knew how to use it. The indians gave it the rules, math is abt rules and not Symbols
2026-09-02 06:05:42
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hairy larry :
except they lost
2026-09-02 00:58:24
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BB :
it doesn't work well for large numbers and large calculations
2026-09-02 03:09:33
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Shamobe :
What came first, words, numbers or reality
2026-09-02 02:35:09
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ItchyFreckle🇦🇺 :
Maths is a scam in many ways I can make numbers do or say anything I want.
2026-09-01 22:25:19
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. :
the mayans didnt understand calculus
2026-09-02 02:39:52
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austinsp1013221 :
didn't the Romans use only 3 in this context as well? I V X
2026-09-02 02:59:14
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Theoisrealyo :
scrap their math,we're all gonna use binary so we only need to remember 2 symbols
2026-09-02 01:27:40
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HauntSgv :
our numbers are Arabic from the middle east .
2026-09-02 00:22:37
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Foo Bar :
so they used a base 20 system with 3 symbols? 🤔🧐
2026-09-02 05:39:04
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Adam Tyr Taylor :
doesn't nasa and mathematicians use BASE 8 MATH
2026-09-02 01:06:12
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