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Every number is at once half the sum of the two on either side of itself...
Book II, Chapter XXV

— Nicomachus Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)

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Scientific number, being set over such things as these, should be harmoniously constituted, in accordance with itself; not by any other but by itself.

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Number is limited multitude or a combination of units or a flow of quantity made up of units; and the first division of number is even and odd.

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Two other sciences in the same way will accurately treat of 'size': geometry, the part that abides and is at rest, [and] astronomy, that which moves and revolves.

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Everything that is harmoniously constituted is knit together out of opposites...
Book I, Chapter VII

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