Excerpt from The Science of Arithmetic: For High Schools, Normal Schools, Preparatory Departments to Colleges, and Academies
As applied to number, perhaps the term conveys the idea of the whole, rather than of that whole as made up of parts. It is, there fore, scarcely proper to speak of multiplying by a quantity we should say, by a number.
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