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<head>1828 October 12<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>. 1831 March 9 M<lb/> | |||
Posology</head> | |||
<note>33<lb/> | |||
Conject<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> History<lb/> | |||
Incommensurability<lb/> | |||
Cause of</note> | |||
<p>P43</p> | |||
<note>Decimal mode<lb/> | |||
derived from the N<hi rend="superscript">o</hi> of<lb/> | |||
fingers</note> | |||
<p>The substitution of this less convenient mode of notation<lb/> | |||
in arithmetic was as natural not to say inevitable as<lb/> | |||
it is unfortunate: <del>five is the number</del> in the human<lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> species five is the number of the fingers on each<lb/> | |||
hand the short and thickest finger distinguished by<lb/> | |||
the name of Thumb included; two the number of the<lb/> | |||
hands here then is ten the number continually<lb/> | |||
presenting itself to all human eyes here then was <add>is</add><lb/> | |||
the elementary number: by the requisite number of<lb/> | |||
requisitions made of this number all greater numbers<lb/> | |||
are capable of being expressed.</p> | |||
<note>Six-fingered people<lb/> | |||
have been known —<lb/> | |||
they would have adopted<lb/> | |||
the duodecimal mode.</note> | |||
<p>Instances have sometimes been observed of human<lb/> | |||
beings provided with six fingers on each hand<lb/> | |||
instead of five: <del>and</del> <add>had</add> the lot <add>function</add> of giving names to<lb/> | |||
numbers fallen to the lot of any one of these so<lb/> | |||
extraordinarily gifted beings the result instead<lb/> | |||
of the decimal would have been the so much<lb/> | |||
more desirable duo decimal mode.</p> | |||
<note>Extraordinary <add>that</add> designation<lb/> | |||
by dingle figures<lb/> | |||
should have stopped<lb/> | |||
at 9 — 10 being the<lb/> | |||
number of fingers.</note> | |||
<p>A circumstance that presents itself as rather<lb/> | |||
extraordinary is that considering ten was the<lb/> | |||
number of the <sic>Archytype</sic> constantly in view<lb/> | |||
the practice of designating a number by a<lb/> | |||
single figure should have stopped where it was<lb/> | |||
No 9 <del><gap/></del> instead of extending itself to No 10: a<lb/> | |||
number for which the same number <add>figure</add> that had<lb/> | |||
before been <del><gap/></del> employed for designation of No 1<lb/> | |||
is again employed as a designation to the<lb/> | |||
other number by the help of the anomalous<lb/> | |||
figure 0 added to it</p> | |||
<p>Thus stands the problem the solution does<lb/> | |||
not present itself as obvious.</p> | |||
<p>Go on to speak of the Roman or Grecian notation</p> | |||
1828 October 12th. 1831 March 9 M
Posology
33
Conjectr History
Incommensurability
Cause of
P43
Decimal mode
derived from the No of
fingers
The substitution of this less convenient mode of notation
in arithmetic was as natural not to say inevitable as
it is unfortunate: five is the number in the human
species five is the number of the fingers on each
hand the short and thickest finger distinguished by
the name of Thumb included; two the number of the
hands here then is ten the number continually
presenting itself to all human eyes here then was is
the elementary number: by the requisite number of
requisitions made of this number all greater numbers
are capable of being expressed.
Six-fingered people
have been known —
they would have adopted
the duodecimal mode.
Instances have sometimes been observed of human
beings provided with six fingers on each hand
instead of five: and had the lot function of giving names to
numbers fallen to the lot of any one of these so
extraordinarily gifted beings the result instead
of the decimal would have been the so much
more desirable duo decimal mode.
Extraordinary that designation
by dingle figures
should have stopped
at 9 — 10 being the
number of fingers.
A circumstance that presents itself as rather
extraordinary is that considering ten was the
number of the Archytype constantly in view
the practice of designating a number by a
single figure should have stopped where it was
No 9 instead of extending itself to No 10: a
number for which the same number figure that had
before been employed for designation of No 1
is again employed as a designation to the
other number by the help of the anomalous
figure 0 added to it
Thus stands the problem the solution does
not present itself as obvious.
Go on to speak of the Roman or Grecian notation
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