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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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