My maternal grandfather’s gold pocket watch, bequeathed to me by my mother, hangs on a hook under a bell jar atop a bookcase in my living room. Its crystal is missing, its face has several nicks ...
The Hindu–Arabic numeral system is a positional base-ten numeral system for representing integers; its extension to non-integers is the decimal numeral system, which is presently the most common ...
It is an instructive irony of English political history that the Houses of Parliament were burned down not by revolutionaries ... Roman numerals were valued for their affinity with Latin, the de facto ...