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Arithmetic

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Arithmetic

By Paul Lockhart

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About the book

Because we have ten fingers, grouping by ten seems natural, but it has serious shortcomings. Twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is well suited to repeated halving. Grouping by two, as in binary code, has turned out to have its own remarkable advantages.Paul Lockhart presents arithmetic not as a rote manipulation of numbers-a practical if mundane branch of knowledge best suited for filling out tax forms-but a fascinating, sometimes surprising intellectual craft that arises from ou...Show more

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9780674237513

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2019

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Arithmetic

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