Slide Rule Sense: Amazonian Indigenous Culture Demonstrates A Universal Mapping Of Number Onto Space

The ability to map numbers onto a line, a foundation of all mathematics, is universal, says a study published in Science, but the form of this universal mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The findings illuminate both the nature and the limits of the human predisposition to measurement, a foundation for science, engineering, and much of our modern culture.

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