Notes

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2. Noah Webster. American Dictionary of the English Language (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam & Co., 1889)

3. Mario Aloisio, "The Calculation of Easter Day, and the Origin and Use of the Word Computer" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing vol. 13, no. 3 (IEEE Computer Society, 2004 Jul-Sep), 42-49. Also available online at http://www.dgatx.com/computing/people/Mario-Aloisio/pubs/2004/Computer/promo1.pdf (accessed 2004 Sep 5).

4. Denise Schmandt-Besserat, The History of Counting (Harper Collins, 1999 Aug 25).

5. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/ (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2004 Aug 25).

6. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "History Topics: Numbers and Number Theory Index," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Indexes/Number_Theory.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2004 Sep 5).