Potts, R: Elementary Arithmetic

Excerpt from Elementary Arithmetic: With Brief Notices of Its History

There is another Eastern people [the Chinese] remarkable at once for the great antiquity and unchangeable character of their existing institutions, who possess a numerical language of great extent, connected with a very perfect system of numeration.

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