Talk:History of large numbers

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Please see my discussion of Names for Large Numbers. -- Stephen001

Apparently, the person who wrote the part about Indian mathematics wasn't aware of the work of Archimedes, Apollonius, and Diophantus, a Greek triumvirate which is not at all shabby. I have added references to these Greek works, without taking too much away from the Indian part. -ilan

The date for the earliest layers of the Vedic literature is approx. 1700 B.C. not 3500 B.C. even though most of the Rg veda is around 1200 B.C. Please desist from entering wrong information here.

- My own quick note: a brief search reveals quite a few sources associating the historical Indian word "dhvajagranishamani" with the power of 145 rather than the stated 421. None of these are academic sources, but I've yet to see an external source confirming the 421. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.2.161.80 (talk) 19:03, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Large finite numbers

It's a pity that History ended with the transfinite numbers, I think there was room to include the history of large but finite numbers as they appeared in mathematics. Albmont 20:01, 24 August 2007 (UTC)