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  • Perfect Figures: The Lore of Numbers and How We Learned to Count
  • Written by author Bunny Crumpacker
  • Published by St. Martin's Press, 8/7/2007
  • Since the beginning of civilization, numbers have been more than just a way to keep count. Perfect Figures tells the stories of how each number came to be and what incredible associations and superstitions have been connected to them ever sinc
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Acknowledgments     xi
One is All: The parent number, where everything starts. We would have Nothing without One     1
Two is You and Your Image in the Mirror: The first one more-you and me     29
Three is a Magic Number: Once upon a time, there were three wishes, three little kittens, three princes, three bears...     43
Four is a Solid Number: Quarters and squares and the spaces between our fingers     56
Five is for Fingers: Counting on your fingers, from one to thousands     75
Six is Perfect: Mathematical perfection, and what snowflakes and bees have in common     93
Seven is a Happy Number: The serious and frivolous sides of seven     109
Eight is Forever: The roundness of eight, and its link to infinity     124
Nine is a New Number: Late in the history of counting, the tricks of nine     143
Zero is Not Nothing: A circle around nothing makes everything possible     159
Ten Means Two Hands: The first of the double-digit numbers and the first to include a zero     178
Eleven is a Leftover Number: One at the foot     192
Twelve is the Last of the Basic Number Names: Dozens and dozens and dozens: when we counted by twelves     201
100: Hundred is a Strange Word: A leap into big-time numbers     223
1,000: Thousand is a Swollen Hundred: Here we have a great and gloriousnumber     233
1,000,000: Million is Not Yet Forever: Millions and billions and trillions-and their aires     244
And One More: The Manifest Destiny of Numbers: There's no last number. Add one more-again and forever     251
Bibliography     259
Index     261


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