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How do you count sheep without any numbers?
Long before the number symbols we use today were invented, the earliest known symbols started life in 3D, as Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University Ian Stewart explains.
Photo: Sheep in a single file. (Selimaksan/Getty Images)
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