UNIT

, Unite, or Unity, in Arithmetic, the number one, or one single individual part of discrete quantity. See Number.—The place of units, is the first place on the right hand in integer numbers.

According to Euclid, Unity is not a number, for he defines number to be a multitude of Units.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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