The Japanese numbers game : the use and understanding of numbers in modern Japan / Thomas Crump.

By:

Crump, Thomas

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0203318102
9780203318102
0203038975
9780203038970
9781134935581
1134935587
9786610331604
661033160X
9781134935598
1134935595
9781134935543
1134935544
9781138009233
1138009237

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Japanese numbers game.DDC classification:

398/.356/0952 20

LOC classification:

GR340 .C78 1992eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-201) and index.

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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.

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