You know it's something I've always noticed but don't think of much. Why is it that images of battlefields, regardless of the era, like to represent groups of soldiers with T's? I mean it's not like formations are always rectangles.
Archimedes of Syracuse developed the concept behind Powers of Ten,
John the Baptist used Scientific Notation in Book of Revelation and,
Rene Descartes published his John the Baptist System in 1637.
G's US Mathematicians using his system represent numbers.
666 x 10^-10 centimeter^3/gram-second^2 G's US System.
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