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Do you still count on your fingers?
I fell in love with numbers some time before I began going to school. I loved arithmetic from day one. I was one of those horrible people who were good at maths at school and actually enjoyed doing…
Finger counting is one of the earliest forms of human calculation as Jessica Marie Otis tells us in her By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England. Nonetheless, Wisdom 11:21–God’s creation of the world by numbers, weight, and measure–formed a rallying cry for people who wished to encourage the wider study of mathematics among the general population of early modern England. Otis takes the readers through the complex and oft heated discussion on God’s providence contra natural order and fortune, which at times led to the condemnation of gaming by puritans.
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