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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    UID:
    gbv_77580441X
    Format: Online-Ressource (224 p)
    ISBN: 9780415056090
    Series Statement: Nissan Institute / Routledge Japanese Studies
    Content: An almost obsessional use of numbers characterizes Japanese popular culture. A wide variety of numerical formulae and strategies provide the means for explaining events and solving problems occurring in everyday life. These include such matters as the choice of the name for a child, ranking in almost any game or sport, the diagnosis and cure of illness or the decision to accept a new job. This text provides a general study of the field of Japanese popular numeracy. It introduces the reader to a world of numbers in which fortune-telling, the abacus and games involving numbers, as well as curiou
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; The Japanese numbers game: The use and understanding of numbers in modern Japan; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; General editor's preface; Preface; 1 The numerical paradox; 2 Numbers in the written and spoken language; 3 Alternative number systems; 4 The culture of numbers; 5 What's in a Japanese name?; 6 Fortune-telling; 7 Time; 8 The spatial world of numbers; 9 The Japanese abacus; 10 Games-ancient and modern; 11 The ecology of numbers-past and present; Notes; References; Index
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780203038970
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780415056090
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe JAPANESE NUMBERS GAME
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    London ; : Routledge,
    UID:
    almafu_9959236592002883
    Format: 1 online resource (224 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 1-134-93558-7 , 0-203-31810-2 , 1-280-33160-7 , 0-203-03897-5
    Series Statement: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
    Content: An almost obsessional use of numbers characterizes Japanese popular culture. A wide variety of numerical formulae and strategies provide the means for explaining events and solving problems occurring in everyday life. These include such matters as the choice of the name for a child, ranking in almost any game or sport, the diagnosis and cure of illness or the decision to accept a new job. This text provides a general study of the field of Japanese popular numeracy. It introduces the reader to a world of numbers in which fortune-telling, the abacus and games involving numbers, as well as cur
    Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Cover; The Japanese numbers game: The use and understanding of numbers in modern Japan; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; General editor's preface; Preface; 1 The numerical paradox; 2 Numbers in the written and spoken language; 3 Alternative number systems; 4 The culture of numbers; 5 What's in a Japanese name?; 6 Fortune-telling; 7 Time; 8 The spatial world of numbers; 9 The Japanese abacus; 10 Games-ancient and modern; 11 The ecology of numbers-past and present; Notes; References; Index , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-138-00923-7
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-415-05609-8
    Language: English
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