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NUMBER STORIES Number Stories, p58-illustration.png PAGE FROM ROBERT RECORD’S BOOK This page from Robert Record’s “Ground of Artes” was printed nearly four hundred years ago

caster,” meaning a man who could calculate only with counters and not with pencil and paper as we do. We sometimes use counters to-day in keeping the score in games. 58