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- catalog alternative "Histoire universelle des chiffres. English".
- catalog contributor b11484330.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description "Explaining the origins : ethnological and psychological approaches to the sources of numbers -- Base numbers and the birth of number systems -- The earliest calculating machine-- the hand -- How Cro-Magnon Man counted -- Tally sticks : accounting for beginners -- Numbers on strings -- Number, value and money -- Numbers of Sumer -- The enigma of the sexagesimal base -- The development of written numerals in Elam and Mesopotamia -- The decipherment of a five-thousand-year-old system -- How the Sumerians did their sums -- Mesopotamian numbering after the eclipse of Sumer -- The numbers of ancient Egypt -- Counting in the times of the Cretan and Hittite kings -- Greek and Roman numerals -- Letters and numbers -- The invention of alphabetic numerals -- Other alphabetic number-systems -- Magic, mysticism, divination, and other secrets -- The numbers of Chinese civilisation -- The amazing achievements of the Maya -- The final state of numerical notation -- Indian civilisation : the cradle of modern numerals -- Dictionary of the numeral symbols of Indian civilisation -- Indian numerals and calculation in the Islamic world -- The slow progress of Indo-Arabic numerals in Western Europe -- Beyond perfection.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 601-615) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 633 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0471375683 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : J. Wiley,".
- catalog subject "513.2 21".
- catalog subject "Numeration History.".
- catalog subject "QA141 .I3713 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Explaining the origins : ethnological and psychological approaches to the sources of numbers -- Base numbers and the birth of number systems -- The earliest calculating machine-- the hand -- How Cro-Magnon Man counted -- Tally sticks : accounting for beginners -- Numbers on strings -- Number, value and money -- Numbers of Sumer -- The enigma of the sexagesimal base -- The development of written numerals in Elam and Mesopotamia -- The decipherment of a five-thousand-year-old system -- How the Sumerians did their sums -- Mesopotamian numbering after the eclipse of Sumer -- The numbers of ancient Egypt -- Counting in the times of the Cretan and Hittite kings -- Greek and Roman numerals -- Letters and numbers -- The invention of alphabetic numerals -- Other alphabetic number-systems -- Magic, mysticism, divination, and other secrets -- The numbers of Chinese civilisation -- The amazing achievements of the Maya -- The final state of numerical notation -- Indian civilisation : the cradle of modern numerals -- Dictionary of the numeral symbols of Indian civilisation -- Indian numerals and calculation in the Islamic world -- The slow progress of Indo-Arabic numerals in Western Europe -- Beyond perfection.".
- catalog title "Histoire universelle des chiffres. English".
- catalog title "The universal history of numbers : from prehistory to the invention of the computer / Georges Ifrah ; translated from the French by David Bellos ... [et al.].".
- catalog type "text".