THIS is an ingenious work, and would have suited the “fantastical” Armado (“I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster”). By the aid of 1759 figures only the user of it is able to ...

In the remote Arctic almost 30 years ago, a group of Inuit middle school students and their teacher invented the Western Hemisphere's first new numeral system in more than a century. The “Kaktovik ...