GREEK NUMERICAL NOTATION AND ARITH METICAL OPERATION aka A decimal system
Laughlin proposes nothing less than a new way of understanding fundamental laws of science. In this age of superstring theories and Big-Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as being impossibly distant from our everyday lives. The edges of science, we're told, lie in the first nanofraction of a second of the Universe's existence, or else in realms so small that they can't be glimpsed even by the most sophisticated experimental techniques. But we haven't reached the end of science, Laughlin argues-only the end of reductionist thinking. If we consider the world of emergent properties instead, suddenly the deepest mysteries are only mysteries as the result of them being made so through repetitive non sense teaching...The source of knowledge of mathematics is as close to the face of every single hominid on this planet as the nearest ice cube or grain of salt...given that the hominid is 4% salt as is the blue dot on which said hominid does not breath the solid liquid that it did for the first nine months of its existence an instance which has repeated itself some 200,000,000,000 multiples since the days of the Platers of plots plugging pointy sticks into porus mud to put a point on the picture of life as said point is represented around every hominid since whether or not still emitting gamma radys the new new name for the scary thing that eats human brain tissue with silly abandon when allowed to run free Desprately seeking susan in the Aether of Athens the heaven above the salty saline solution to everything...add a little olive oil and a fig or three the makings of a magician doth thou seem to seem to metric the metician manna wise for free when manna is a weight the teeth crunch grain concatanenately
- link (things) together in a chain or series."some words may be concatenated, such that certain sounds are omitted"
Gnomon the known or the Gnown not the Grown Gee there are three let us see
II 6 GREEK NUMERICAL NOTATION AND ARITH METICAL OPERATIONS The decimal system . The Greeks, from the earliest historical times, followed the decimal system of numeration, which had already been adopted by civilized peoples all the world over . There are,, it is true, traces of quinary reckoning ( reckoning in terms of five) in very early times ; thus in Homer treuTTÁ SELV ( to ' five ') is used for to count '.! But the counting by fives was pro bably little more than auxiliary to counting by tens ; five was a natural halting -place between the unit and ten , and the use of five times a particular power of ten as a separate category intermediate between that power and the next was found convenient in the earliest form of numerical symbolism estab lished in Greece, just as it was in the Roman arithmetical notation. The reckoning by five does not amount to such a variation of the decimal system as that which was in use among the Celts and Danes; these peoples had a vigesimal system , traces of which are still left in the French quatre vingts, quatre-vingt -treize, &c. , and in our score, three - score and ten , twenty - one, &c . The natural explanation of the origin of the decimal system , as well as of the quinary and vigesimal variations, is to suppose that they were suggested by the primitive practice of reckoning with the fingers, first of one hand, then of both together, and after that with the ten toes in addition (making up the 20 of the vigesimal system ). The subject was mooted in the Aristotelian Problems, where it is asked : " Why do all men , whether barbarians or Gree
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