atw: Re: Paragraph numbering this week

The pseudo-decimal numbering system 1.1.1, etc, was invented by the Italian mathematician Guiseppe Peano (1858-1932), and used by him in a textbook published around 1905.
The earliest use that I know of in an English-language publication was in the second edition of G.H. Hardy's "A Course of Pure Mathematics" (Oxford, 1914, and probably still in print). 


James Hunt
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On 27 Nov 2006, at 1:41 PM, Irene Wong wrote:
We talked about page numbering last week but I'd like to ask about paragraph numbering.
Does anyone know of any research or documentation into para numbering, particularly using the 1.1.1. kind of structure? 

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