Writing in the early 1930s, William Coles Finch explains the confusion over the dates, saying "the old-fashioned numeral five is so frequently taken as a one".
We then asked whether a simple model of numerosity discrimination based only on scalar variability could explain the difference between dots and numeral valuations.
It is next to impossible for synesthetes to explain the connections we make between particular letters, numerals and colors.
The phylogroups revealed by our investigation are distinguished by Roman numerals (I V), their nomenclatorial assignments summarized in Table 1 and explained in Additional file 1.
Bernays (1930) explained how exponentiation may be understood as a finitary operation on numerals.
The numerals in the last row can be taken as the representation of the "commonness" of the channel in a network as explained in Section 3.4.
The numeral "III" was misleading because it falsely suggested some similarity between nuclear "war" - a convulsion of meaningless destruction that would be over in half an hour - and World War I and II, which were actual wars, involving military campaigns and the like, lasting several years each... Goes on to explain how writer's thoughts and feelings were hopelessly unequal to the occasion.
The first seven chapters dealt with the notation, explaining the principle of place value, by which the position of a figure determines whether it is a unit, 10, 100, and so forth, and demonstrating the use of the numerals in arithmetical operations.
The direct influence of Rome for such a long period, the superiority of its numeral system over any other simple one that had been known in Europe before about the 10th century, and the compelling force of tradition explain the strong position that the system maintained for nearly 2,000 years in commerce, in scientific and theological literature, and in belles lettres.
They also do not explain how a language whose lexicon preponderantly relates "solidly to Korean" should come to have all four of its attested basic numerals remarkably similar to Japanese.
