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64% vi Numbers and Numerals also sec how this abstract idea became more and more real as it came in contact with the needs ofeveryday life and with the superstitions-of the people. The story -tells many - interesting -things about measures, a few things about such matters as adding and s:tbtracting, and some things about the curious and hopelessly absurd_ number sur.-r, stit ions. If you come across a few strange words frotilitrange languages, do not think that you Must pronounce them or keep them in mind. You will find that they-are explained, that they are part of the story, and that they help to_ tell y'ou something interesting._ They are no worse than such relics of the past as "subtrahend" and "quotient." In other words, here is a story Of the ages. We hope that you will like it and will tell it to others. The authors wish to express their thanks to-Ginn and Company (Boston, Mass.) for permission to use certain illustrations from Smith's Number Stories of Long Ago (1919),_ his Kara Arithmetica (s 9°8), and his History of Mathematics (1925,. especially Volume H, Chapter I), where the subject is treateS snore extensively.
e- Contents Chapter I. Learning to Count II. Naming the Numbers III. FroM Numbers to Numerals IV. iron) Numerals to Computation Page 4 25 V. Fractions 35 VI. nystery of Numbers 39 Number Pleasantries 44 VIII...5tory of a Few Arithmetic Words 48 Index 51
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Page 51 and 52: Mystery of Numbers 43 The cabala (o
Page 53 and 54: Number Pleasantries 45 the products
Page 55 and 56: Number Pleasantries 47 If we should
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Story of a Few Aritnmetic Words 49
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