There are even pages at the back of the book that show you what the numerals stand for.
In a series of precisely executed watercolor drawings, candy-colored product logos are combined with bits of architecture and thread-fine lines of written numerals into what might be called corporate still lifes.
One day when Lars was 7, Thorkil Sonne was puttering around the house doing weekend chores while Lars sat on a wooden chair, hunched for hours over a sheet of paper, pencil in hand, sketching chubby rectangles and filling them with numerals in what seemed to represent a rough outline of Europe.
While dependent on the context and the children involved, this may involve adult initiated curriculum experiences where children aged 4 5 years are actively engaged in discussing and playing with concepts and ideas about letters, numbers, time, money and musical notation (such as talking about the patterns and relationships that exist between numerals and what they represent).
For a Boolean local topos, ω-completeness will also ensure that all numerals are standard, so that numerals mean exactly what they are intended to mean.
The walls are marked with the remnants of bold Victorian numerals to identify what were originally grain chutes but are now windows.
For Super Bowl X (Steelers-Cowboys; 1976), back when you didn't have to be an expert in Roman numerals to know what number the big game was, Anthony Hiss attended a party that sounds positively uninviting by the standards of today's pigskin bacchanals: I went over to an environmental-planning teacher's house for X.
This 35-year-old FORBES cover underscores the obvious but oft-overlooked truth: While numbers convey precision, what goes on behind those numerals is anything but precise.
There al-Khwarizmi encountered the Hindu place-value system based on the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, including the first use of zero as a place holder in positional base notation, and he wrote a treatise around 820 AD, on what we call Hindu-Arabic numerals.
The key question here is, what cognitive process have the multi-representational numerals bypassed during the procedure of accessing magnitude information?
To evoke another bad 70s band, Ponnuru wants us to get stuck on existential numeral quandaries: "Does anyone really know what time it is?" But again, he misses the point.
