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The Name of the Number [electronic resource].
The Name of the Number [electronic resource].
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Camberwell : Australian Council for Educational Research, 2007.
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Date
2007.
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English
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1 online resource (126 p.)
CONTENTS; List of tables; Series overview; About the author; Preface; 0 Introduction; 1 The language families of the world; 2 The notion of a base; 3 Other aspects of number: words and symbols; 4 Grammar: the grammatical status of number-words; 5 Early history of numerical concepts; 6 Developed syst...
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text
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computer
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online resource
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Camberwell : Australian Council for Educational Research, 2007.
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2007.
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The Name of the Number We're used to the idea that 'closely related' languages have words that are similar to English. For example, the word for 'three' in Latin, French, Italian and German is 'tres', 'trois', 'tre' and 'drei'. But did you know that the word for 'three' in Sanskrit is 'trayah'? How can words from completely different languages...
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The Name of the Number [electronic resource].
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BOOK
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The Emergence of Number
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English
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74VK3eQOjR5A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3eQOjR5A
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1-4294-8314-8
DDC
513
MMS ID
991023937424402626
