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I'm in Mexico for vacation and visited Chichen Itza yesterday.
We did a tour, and on the bus our guide went through a lecture on Mayan history, culture, and so on -- including their mathematics.
I did not expect her to get into the details of how a base-20 positional number system worked! To a busload of random tourists, she explained how one writes 2043 as 5*400 + 2*20 + 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_numerals
And the site, of course, is amazing!