Washington DC, October 13, 1884. The International Meridian Conference determines a prime meridian for international use as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the world. This would codify the use of numbers to determine place and time. In Numbered the same digits are used to mark human beings in Auschwitz and the various camps as a personal and collective symbol from 1940 to today.
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