Is there a conceivable root to his interest in numbers
        
        
     
    
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        When he escaped from his native place to Croton he was advised to go to Memphis and learn from the priests who were there at the time
        
        
     
    
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        He went there and studies there for a while. People say that his interest in numbers started there