《核舟记》中有“舟首尾长约八分有奇”(着重号系笔者所加。)课本对“有奇”二字的解释是:“还有零”。笔者认为欠妥。在这里,“奇”乃“奇零”、“零数”之意,即是“不成整数的数”或“除整数以外的尾数”,而不是整数“零”。如果把“奇”解释为“零”,则容易产生歧义,不知是表示整数“零”还是整数以外的“零数”。如是后者,则显见其解释得不完整;如是前者,则属画蛇添足了。古汉语中常有“二十有 In “Nuclear Boat Record,” there is “about eight points in the boat’s tail and tail length” (emphasis added) The textbook explains the word “odd” as follows: “there are zero.” I think defective. Here, “odd” means “odd zero” and “zero”, that is, “not an integer number” or “mantissa except an integer number” instead of an integer “zero”. If the “odd” is interpreted as “zero”, then prone to ambiguity, I do not know whether the integer “zero” or integer “other than the zero.” In the case of the latter, it is obvious that the explanation is not complete. In the case of the former, it is an overstatement. Ancient Chinese often "twenty have