POSITIVE WHOLE NUMBERS -the natural numbers-fill the fundamental human need for counting, but, additionally, a civilized society requires fractional numbers for orderly division of land and goods-artificial numbers that fill in the gaps between the natural numbers.
An edition of A Smoother Pebble
(2003)
A Smoother Pebble
Mathematical Explorations (Mathematics)
by Donald C. Benson
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