Zero to Lazy Eight

Did you ever wonder why a stitch in time saves nine and not say four or why the number seven is considered the luckiest or what number the word googol refers to? Well the Humez brothers along with Joseph Maguire have answered all of these questions and more. In Zero to Lazy Eight they take us on a wacky and enlightening trip up the linguistic number scale from zero to thirteen and back by way of infinity showing us just what numbers can tell us about our culture's past present and future. Whether it be numerical maxims mathematical theory or numeric etymology there is something here for everyone.