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Zero to Lazy Eight: The Romance of Numbers

by Alexander Humez

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Lively and accessible, this delightful book is a friendly exploration of hundreds of colloquial expressions based on numbers and numerical expressions ("take five", "behind the eight ball", etc.), the ideas that underlie them, and the roles those ideas have played--and continue to play--in the evolution of our increasingly "numerate" culture. Line drawings.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780671742812
With:
Maguire, Joseph
With:
Humez, Nicholas
With:
Maguire, Joseph
Author:
Humez, Alexander
Author:
Humez, Nicholas
Publisher:
Touchstone Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Reference
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Number Theory
Subject:
Mathematics-Number Theory
Copyright:
1994
Edition Description:
B102
Publication Date:
August 1994
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.44 x 5.5 in 11.13 oz
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