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<head>(24 Prefat.</head> | |||
<head>Origination of Numbers</head> | |||
<p>When visible marks permanent ways of expressing Ideas <lb/> | |||
were invented, then of numbers among the rest <lb/> | |||
<del>not</del> no doubt had their representatives, marks<lb/> | |||
equal to the number to the objects they were <unclear>part</unclear><lb/> | |||
to represent were probably the first, but afterwards <lb/> | |||
having occasion to express<del> mar</del> so many objects <lb/> | |||
as would take up too much <unclear>words</unclear>. a more complicated <lb/> | |||
method were <add>figures were invented</add>introduced. The Roman figures seem <lb/> | |||
to favor this. a number as far as 3 or even<lb/> | |||
four is expressed by an equal number of <del>strokes</del>.</p> | |||
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(24 Prefat. Origination of Numbers
When visible marks permanent ways of expressing Ideas
were invented, then of numbers among the rest
not no doubt had their representatives, marks
equal to the number to the objects they were part
to represent were probably the first, but afterwards
having occasion to express mar so many objects
as would take up too much words. a more complicated
method were figures were inventedintroduced. The Roman figures seem
to favor this. a number as far as 3 or even
four is expressed by an equal number of strokes.
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Identifier: | JB/135/042/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 135. |
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135 |
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042 |
prefat. |
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004 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
4 |
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recto |
f21 / f22 / f23 / f24 |
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sir samuel bentham |
[[watermarks::[gr with crown] [pro patria motif]]] |
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46160 |
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