Preferred Numbers
He also proposed a now widely used system of preferred numbers that was later named after him and became international standard ISO 3. It helped the French army to reduce the number of different balloon ropes kept on inventory from 425 to 17.
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“The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.”
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