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How do you count sheep without any numbers?

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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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