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

"An anthropological exploration of evolving number systems and how they are used, and eventually displace, by newer number systems"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chrisomalis, Stephen, 1974- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
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Physical Description:xvii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction: Three reckonings -- The limits of numerical cognition -- Conspicuous computation -- The decline and fall of the Roman numerals, I : of screws and hammers -- The decline and fall of the Roman numerals, II : safety in numbers -- Number crunching -- How to choose a number -- To infinity and beyond? 
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