"Numeration" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... number of the fingers is still the utmost extent of its signification. Ten is the past participle of tynan, to close, to shut in. The hands tyned, tened, closed, or shut in, signified ten; for there numeration closed. To denote a number greater than ten, we must begin again, ten and ...
— English Grammar in Familiar Lectures • Samuel Kirkham
... numeration; numbering &c. v.; pagination; tale, recension[obs3], enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation[obs3]; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism[obs3], rhabdology[obs3], dactylonomy[obs3]; measurement &c. 466; statistics. arithmetic, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... an instance of this in numeration. No idea is more obvious or simple than that of unity, or one. By the continual addition of this, first to itself to make two, and then to each higher combination successively, we form a series of different ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... many conventional significations; thus white silver, green corn, yellow gold; but in another quipu, white peace, red war, soldiers, etc. The quipu was originally only a means of numeration and keeping accounts, thus: ...
— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson
... necessity of adhering to the precepts of the sacred books. Science was monopolized by the priests; and it is said that by them the King was regularly sworn to retain the old and unintercalated year. The want of decimal notation, and the consequent clumsiness of the system of numeration, would go far to preclude the improvement of arithmetic, or any science ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... which were used in the aforesaid monarchies for the numeration of their years were these four: Tecpatl, that signifies flint; Calli, the house; Tochtli, the rabbit; and Acatl, the reed. * * * The material signification of the names are those just given, but the allegories that they wished to set forth by them are the four elements, which they understood ...
— Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts • Cyrus Thomas
... amounted to 1859 lines (the numeration, owing to the inclusion of broken lines, is given as 1863), and falls short of the existing text by the last four lines of stanza xi. It contains the first dedication to Moore, and numbers 100 ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron |
