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Arithmetic
Arithmetic
Author: Paul Lockhart
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, and eight is smaller and well suited to repeated halving. Grouping ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674972230
ISBN-10: 0674972236
Publication Date: 8/21/2017
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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