Prime Number Notation: The numbers we first thought of

(This article is part of a future book on megalithic science)

A basic thesis of my book Sacred Number was that,

The Stone Age peoples, through observing the celestial environment (the sky), and how it is time-structured numerically, came to understand the structure of number itself as a cosmic principle that was central to the Creation.

This was the path whereby the Stone Age became the megalithic culture that clearly used large stones in meaningful ways to capture celestial events and express numerical relationships important to this worldview.

Some of the effective techniques, including right angled triangles and counting techniques, developed in the megalithic, leave their own records in the organisation of the megaliths themselves -their alignments and the distances between them. This means that whilst we today take notes of our measurements with pen, paper and our number notation system, the megalithic specialists might have had less need for a system of notation apart from the objects of measurement themselves.

However, it is almost certain that they did develop notation systems, especially with regard to the recording and manipulation of the large numbers of feet, cubits, steps, yards, miles of whatever type required to, for instance, achieve angular measures and trigonometrical functions, without the type of equipment or analytical algebra we have today. We don’t have to re-invent modern systems of mathematics so that the megalith builders could have done what they did – and people who try strain credibility and their theories are roundly rejected. But there does have to be a way for ancient science to achieve what it did.

Even the way we write number down today, in decimal notation, is effectively a sophisticated piece of equipment and the way this evolved within the historical period is perhaps indicative of a prehistoric system of notation that, like so many other elements of our culture, was inherited but in a distorted form relative to the original version....

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