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actually the Mayan math system is closest to that. The mayans counted usually using cocoa beans and so eash dot counted as a "1". The line represented "5" The actual system was essentially a base 20 system. Instead of a number using 1's,10's,100's etc they used 1's, 20's ,400's, 8000's, etc...
so a .. in 20's place would be 20*7 or 140
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