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Re: ConNumbers

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 9, 1999, 1:28
alpha_leonis@hotmail.com writes:
>So I'd like to >know from y'all, is there a precedent for any human language with a number >system besides base-10? And how did that manifest itself in the culture >that used it?
I read somewhere that there is one culture in South America that has numbers for: one, and many. Thats it! I guess they dont feel the need to keep specific counts on everything. ____________________________________________________________________ "Bailando en el fuego con un gran deseo" - India ____________________________________________________________________