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9780671742812
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.Humez, Alexander is the author of 'Zero to Lazy Eight The Romance of Numbers', published 1994 under ISBN 9780671742812 and ISBN 0671742817.
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