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A Budget of Paradoxes (Continued from vol. xiii, page 245)*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

A. De Morgan
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This is a serious proposal to alter our numeral system and to count by twelves. Thus 10 would be twelve, 11 thirteen, &c., two new symbols being invented for ten and eleven. The names of numbers must of course be changed. There are persons who think such changes practicable. I thought this proposal absurd when I first saw it, and I think so still: but the one I shall presently describe beats it so completely in that point, that I have not a smile left for this one.

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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , January 1868 , pp. 107 - 121
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1869

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page 115 note * The Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable (published August, 1867) would be an excellent reading book as a Sequence to 'The dog bit the cat,' …c.