Numerals Quotes by Will Durant

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• Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This… — Woody Allen
• It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy… — Will Durant
• It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since… — Chris Brown
• Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real. — Roy H. Williams
• The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of… — Dan Meyer
• Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. — Rob Pike
• Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals. — Kurt Vonnegut
• I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after… — Robert Klein

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