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> There is another puzzle: about the Latin words for 18 and 19 - duodeviginti
> (two from]]> Oct 26, 1995 6:40:09 PM Oct 26, 1995 6:40:09 PM conway@math.Princeton.EDU 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1375429&tstart=0#1375429 >[...]
>>I had not known of Schwartzman's book and am grateful for the]]> Oct 26, 1995 3:35:09 PM Oct 26, 1995 3:35:09 PM xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1375427&tstart=0#1375427 (two from twenty) and undeviginti (one from twenty), a pattern]]> Oct 26, 1995 1:57:48 PM Oct 26, 1995 1:57:48 PM goulding@sas.ac.uk 1 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1375426&tstart=0#1375426 little bit about the Latin number words in the teens up to]]> Oct 26, 1995 1:57:48 PM Oct 26, 1995 1:57:48 PM steves@apple.com 2 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1375425&tstart=0#1375425 >I had not known of Schwartzman's book and am grateful for the reference.
>Other books on the subject are]]> Oct 26, 1995 6:50:19 AM Oct 26, 1995 6:50:19 AM xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1375424&tstart=0#1375424 I learned about numbers essentially in the way one read from left
to right,]]> Oct 26, 1995 6:31:19 AM Oct 26, 1995 6:31:19 AM sah@math.sunysb.edu 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1375423&tstart=0#1375423

> Bonnie Leitch asked:
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> > I am a high school math teacher with a]]> Oct 25, 1995 12:32:21 PM Oct 25, 1995 12:32:21 PM conway@math.Princeton.EDU 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1375422&tstart=0#1375422
> I am a high school math teacher with a historical question. Bill Dunham
>suggested I]]> Oct 25, 1995 9:53:41 AM Oct 25, 1995 9:53:41 AM hale_d@gusher.pb.utexas.edu 1 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1375420&tstart=0#1375420 few terms of a sequence to be treated specially. Thus in English,
"eleven" is]]> Oct 25, 1995 8:59:27 AM Oct 25, 1995 8:59:27 AM conway@math.Princeton.EDU 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1375419&tstart=0#1375419 > I am a high school math teacher with a historical question. Bill Dunham
>suggested I ask you. Why in both the]]> Oct 25, 1995 7:31:36 AM Oct 25, 1995 7:31:36 AM xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr 0