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Number words and number symbols; [electronic resource] a cultural history of numbers [by] Karl Menninger. Translated by Paul Broneer from the rev. German ed.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press [1969]Description: xiii, 480 p. illus., facsims., maps. 26 cmUniform titles:
  • Zahlwort und Ziffer. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 511/.1
LOC classification:
  • QA141.2 .M4513
NLM classification:
  • QA 141
Other classification:
  • 31.14
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Number sequence and number language. The number sequence -- Our number words -- Written numerals and computations. Finger counting -- Folk symbols for numbers -- Alphabetical numerals -- The "German" Roman numerals -- The Abacus -- Our own numerals -- Spoken numbers and number symbols in China and Japan.
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Translation of Zahlwort und Ziffer.

Number sequence and number language. The number sequence -- Our number words -- Written numerals and computations. Finger counting -- Folk symbols for numbers -- Alphabetical numerals -- The "German" Roman numerals -- The Abacus -- Our own numerals -- Spoken numbers and number symbols in China and Japan.

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