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Simon Stevin

The first Part. Of the Definitions of the Dismes. The first Definition. Disme is a kind of Arithmeticke, invented by the tenth progression, consisting in Characters of Cyphers; whereby a certain number is described, and by which also all accounts which happen in humane affairs, are dispatched by whole numbers, without fractions or broken numbers.

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If all this be not put in practice... it will be beneficial to our successors, if future men shall hereafter be of such nature as our predecessors, who were never negligent of so great advantage....they may all deliver them selves when they will, from so much and so great labor.

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Multiplication of whole Numbers...Note, that for the more easie solution of this proposition, it were necessary to have in memory the multiplication of the 9 simple Characters among themselves, learning them by rote out of the Table here placed...

genius simon stevin

The use of the Disme...to teach such as doe not already know the use and practice of Numeration, and the four principles of common Arithmetic, in whole numbers, namely, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Division, together with the Golden Rule, sufficient to instruct the most ignorant in the usual practice of this Art of Disme or Decimal Arithmetic.

genius simon stevin

[The books of Euclid pass on to us] something admirable and very necessary to see and to read, namely the order in the method of writing on mathematics in that aforementioned time of the wise age.

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The second Definition. Number is that which expresseth the quantitie of each thing.

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The sixt Definition. A Whole number is either a unitie, or a compounded multitude of unities.