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Arithmetic

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"Inspiring and informative...deserves to be widely read."
--Wall Street Journal

"This fun book offers a philosophical take on number systems and revels in the beauty of math."
--Science News

Because we have ten fingers, grouping...

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Language:English
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Arithmetic

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Because evolution endowed humans with a complement of ten fingers, a grouping size of ten seems natural to us, perhaps even ideal. But from the perspective of mathematics, groupings of ten are arbitrary, and can have serious shortcomings. Twelve would be better for divisibility,...

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Language:English
ISBN:0674972236
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