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The decline of the West, Volume 1

Note 56 — Chapter II · THE MEANING OF NUMBERS

Charles Francis Atkinson translation

In the “Psammites,” or “Arenarius,” Archimedes framed a numerical notation which was to be capable of expressing the number of grains of sand in a sphere of the size of our universe.—Tr.

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