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Bridges, railroads, tall buildings, ships, alrplanes, telephones, and electric lighting would all be lost if we mislald or lost our ability to count, to compute stress and strain, to lay out angles and curves, or to weigh and measure the exact quantities that modern science demands. Living
conditions would go back to a simpler form with small communities of tiny huts amld people bartering one simple commodity for another. The
world, as we know it, could not survive without mathematics. Number systems have been developed in response to humanity's increasing needs
and desires. Without them, both our work and our play would, in large measure, be lost to us.
With which statement would the author be most likely to agree?

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