From earliest childhood, we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans, who had not yet developed this facility.
When she died as a spinster in 1817, only four of her six novels had been published, all anonymous and she eared a grand total of 648.65 pounds from her books.
Had George Osborne, the Conservative shadow chancellor of the exchequer, published his personal ideas for spending cuts, it would have been seen as proof of Tory divisions.
In a comment published Thursday, Moody's Investor's Service warned that Japan's Banks had 'now been drawn fully into the global credit crunch' amid the domestic economic downturn and market slump.
Her first grandchild had been born recently, she had resumed her hospital work and she was confident that the rigorous anti-TB treatment she followed had rid her body of the debilitating disease.
But Frank married Lillian when he was 36, after he had done much of his time-and-motion work and years after he had set up his own engineering consulting business.
And I'm sure they're not going to surprise the American people because they know how stupid we are in terms of what we've done and how we've kind of abdicated our responsibility to do oversight.