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Reckonings :numerals, cognition, and history
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Chrisomalis, Stephen,

Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of numerical notation--distinct ways of writing numbers--have been developed and used by specific communities. Most of these are barely known today; where they are known, they are often derided as cogni…

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1 online resource (264 pages).
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