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Updated: May 14, 2025
Much time had hitherto been worse than wasted by cramming the minds with the jaw-breaking names of unimportant rivers, mountains, descriptions of all the frog ponds in Ethiopia, and other useless trash in the so-called geographies; in memorizing the obsolete rules of duodecimals, compound proportion, etc., in the arithmetic; long-winded, unpractical rules for grammar, etc.
I began to rally up my "little Latin and less Greek," in order to surprise the worthy sawyer and his wife; and I had fully determined to work out for him what the amount of his daily wages came to in a week, first by simple arithmetic, secondly by fractions, thirdly by decimals, and fourthly by duodecimals; and then to prove the whole correct by an algebraical equation.
"Why, yes," said Pringle. "I think I've heard Stella speak of you, too." Being a child must have been great fun once. Nowadays one would as lief be a Strasburg goose. When you and I went to school it was not quite so bad. True, neither of us could now extract a cube root with a stump puller, and it is sad to reflect how little call life has made for duodecimals.
If the strong man who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, had invented a system of numeration, it would have gone in twelves, nearly like the duodecimals which our carpenters use; unless, indeed, he had been stupid after the manner of very strong men, and not gone beyond sixes.
We are an abbreviating nation. Do you like Arithmetic?" "Pretty well, some parts of it. Fractions and Partial Payments. But I can't bear Duodecimals, Position, and such things." "Positions are occasionally embarrassing. And Grammar?" "I think it's horrid. It's all 'indicative mood, common noun, third person, singular number, and agrees with John." "Bravissima! A comprehensive sketch!
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