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SUPPLEMENT TO THE DUNDABERG MAIL, FRIDAY. APRIL. 81, 1809.is mi ml of the htnuli-11 there in hermi, she til hint noini'iil.I away. Ilt;*1 III!-10110V Ulwhichfimro.eamr.woman.I'aplnin,1 in h.i Hi.' lif. iuumg. n- KillFrance* ii woril rank'i! y! this moment, as ill-luck woulil hove it. two of the young guest* apponivd in Ihu ' corridor, and Fraud* Crookclank vvn* forocd to rvliinwMii Uusa'a hnnd ; wo., forced to try to look n» if nothing had happened ; and Mm. Ho**, taking advantage of this opportunity, tumid with tli young couple nn»l wont hack with Ihom into the ilanclllgrnom.lint for more tlim nn hour Franci-fivokubiink did not appear aiming his i iii'Midn. lie went out into thu moon-light, willl the words of his los*. love ringing in It** earn, und ranking on ley pang into hie h art.•• I am a most unhappy woman, sin had Mid ; and Fraud- hit his lips and clenched hi* hands, -cnr.vly dating to ; think whul her words might mean.7’n AI I 'I'HtiniK /•TILE EVOLUTION OF THE DECIMAL SYSTEM.fallinghi told Sll. Ill'i ho had I id been i hi'.il helid tried I liamond | of her | but Am | ow, but • die Into) mi Mr.ex tutor IBi Mvkniox i.x riiK Aylt;Far hack, in the dim ages of the past, in the carlv days of ih ■ long visiu of yenn that lies behind us. we know that theiv wan once II lime in whieh man knew not that two ami two make four. \ time in which man could uiu e.al-mliitc. or. mther. ili.l not. feeling no UihsI to do «. Iii thus, days the -civil- • of numbers was ii eomplctelyhut he ’hi- was In. and lU'u t hutmillion •in his to them. Crook s-iy when joratingunknown to the entire Imtunti race as it is nt present to wm*- of the South Sen UlancUm. At wluit era in the world's history such a state of things existed We know not, Imt that Mich was really tlie cn-i is self evideut. We CMnnol any when the liret faint desire for n imvnn id’ nunieriral expression lir*l began tlt; awaken in the mind of man, blit this i-mrtaiii when the effort mw iviilly mud. i: Strunk root and npivnil mid developed, till it hceniue n mighty power in tin world. But the subject to tv coiixidurvd in this uriielc is not BO luueh the science of ii ii tabors as a whulc a* one hr.ineh of it. what might so he termed the.. .... .-i.i -i.i.bright idea of the mathematician seize 11|h«ii mill make practical usethe converse of the filet that each tigurc in the Arabic nutation iwre»nr.s 10 Uiiu-b the mm’imt for which tin it if tire to the right of it uiuiul-. In otln r wind-it struck Stcvin that u tin- value lt;l ihlt; numerals increase in n dis-iinnl ratio to the left. w it must dicp uw in a decimal ratio to the right Tin ivlon , hv■ p ulm. a point lift, r III uni i lie found he louhl wi ll eii.i exp'vss any fraction whichlit in flume power of IH 100. 1000, 10,000. Ac. loi a dcnominntor. Simon Stivm lived In the Hl:h century, ('onl I he have iviin.ted lilts ciirlli a fetv el U til lies later lie would luive * • u tli it hi invention hud In.n pul to n practical use with regmd i ■ mum», wiighta, arid un-osur, s. which gnvi it a value probably lav beyond miv ihu In had anticipated. Decimal coinn r. and the nn trie ny-tcm gradual! v devrlupi I fn in the intention nl tlie Belgian Uintlnina'-iciitli.The simplicity of tlie decimal .y.tem of coinage, Wei hi- and imumire* i the great iveoninn udntion. To consider it first a« applied tomomy In llie-valem to wlueii tln-ni lirciiiii still dings we liux) three denomination* i r. d.. the valui ofiIn low t beingone 1 Welltii lt;t‘ lhlt; line above it, and tin- vnbieol iImt being mm twentieth of tin m-v. There l. Himnliing hum! uimeieiihlie and holly irrational in such n system. How inm h limpler it would hi if the pr. porh.mute value of pence to rdiil|iiig» Here the same us that nl (dtiMing* l- IHiiirnii. Iii countries where the decimal 'Jrtiin his Wall introduced only two denomination-a v iinpl'iy,d, und their relative vuluo is lu.id on decimal principle-, For instiincr, in Amciin v.i have dollar*and cent*, in I'r.ioea franc* and cutiim-(Itkt centime* to the fiwui’), in Germany 100 pfennigo to the m.o k. hi Anslrm 101) Inotiti'cs in thn yddaii. U will W notice ' ihu: a cent is 1-lDOth. not 1 10. of u doilur; I centime. MOOlh, uot 1 10th, ol all'IIIV. Ac I I 11 111 I li'I'll 0.111111 III II. (All.ninat liKil still thnn And sure ii nniveidecliunl ndup'.ion v.i i Jit- a rrgurd- n till III tvIII co nt* In I I' ell italic.’, is I naii i ly): In. oly), and the c . rlymid centnot I-’ im v dm- for already I which a i • •laMi’dnlt; • lYl’I’C llllit* (In countries ■omctime weight lit the franc arc Ik»Ui • und tlie v 1100 cent Why shot union on W the rrt of till- lIlMire many way of so known f nongnix ■IVaini,’to rdicbttOppTl upK’srh «ui il i* * i in foulli . Iiaro n «iu good for cent of t dny soil v UInt In ii ItW at l'
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Bundaberg Mail and Burnett Advertiser
Bundaberg, Queensland, AU
Fri, Apr 21, 1893
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