Sparta 107
square numbers 152
stamping 74
Stars and Stripes 200, 201
statistical analysis 134
Statistical Museum of the Statistics Bureau of Japan 214
stelae 90, 270, 276–7
Stone Age 6, 31–62, 231, 232, 287
stone tools 33, 38
storm glass 177
stylus 76, 80, 84, 88–9, 150
suanpan (abacus) 186, 195, 196–203, 289
subitising 12, 26–30, 27, 36, 48–9, 62, 105, 273, 287, 289
subtraction
Arabic numerals and 165, 184
beads and 36, 82, 97
ciphering books and 168, 169, 170
counting board and 118–19, 128–9, 158
Oksapmin 242–3
place-value system of number symbols and 142, 143
soroban calculation and 201
Sulawesi, Indonesia 229
Sumer, Mesopotamia 69, 70, 71–82, 75, 85, 86–7, 91, 95, 96–7, 134
Sunda 232
sunya (‘empty’, Sanskrit) 158, 168
symbols, number, See number symbols
synklerosis (kleroteria process) 109
Syria 73, 76, 84, 157
tables 174
Arabic numerals 149, 153, 154, 160, 161, 162, 173–4
astronomical 148, 149, 153, 154, 160, 161, 162, 173–4
base-10 184
counting 125, 126
mortality 175
multiplication 83, 97, 115, 142, 165, 199, 238
Tahitian language 248
tallies 4, 6, 7, 39, 285, 286, 287, 289
body tallies 233, 235–43, 237
census and 207
China 191–2
