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King Karl XII of Sweden (1682–1717) had an extraordinary talent for mathematics. He was by Swedenborg (the great Swedish Universal Genius, 1688–1772) considered equal if not better than Leibniz himself. King Karl XII could easily multiply large numbers without pen and paper, and proposed 64 as the right choice of basis of the natural numbers. Over night he constructed symbols and gave names to all the digits 0,1,..., 62,63. (from The History of Sweden, by Herman Lindquist).
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Eriksson, K., Johnson, C., Estep, D. (2004). Surface Integrals. In: Applied Mathematics: Body and Soul. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05800-8_12
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