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Translation of Zahlwort und Ziffer Number sequence and number language. The number sequence -- Our number words -- Written numerals and computations. Finger counting -- Folk symbols for numbers -- Alphabetical numerals -- The "German" Roman numerals -- The Abacus -- Our own numerals -- Spoken numbers and number symbols in China and Japan

Author

[by] Karl Menninger. Translated by Paul Broneer from the rev. German ed

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press

Published

1969

Language

EN

Subjects

Mathematics, History, Stem

Rating

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Updated

2026-03-14