Arithmetic Warfare & defence Somewhere between the cosy depths

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A MATHICAL HONOR BOOK

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Arithmetic Warfare & defence Somewhere between the cosy depthsBecause evolution endowed humans with a complement of ten fingers, a grouping size of ten seems natural to us, perhaps even ideal. But from the perspective of mathematics, groupings of ten are arbitrary, and can have serious shortcomings. Twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is smaller and well suited to repeated halving. Grouping by two, as in binary code, has turned out to have its own remarkable advantages. Paul Lockhart reveals