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This focuses entirely on the *pre*history of combinatorics (or "protohistory", to use Weil's term). Garald (talk) 15:14, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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@Joel B. Lewis, re: images. One can use Archimedes Palimpsest image which contains Ostomachion, one of the earliest works in enumerative combinatorics and discrete geometry. Mhym (talk) 02:14, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]