Re: More on number bases
| From: | Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 17, 2002, 14:48 |
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See below:
--- Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
> >
> > My sister counts in between her fingers rather
> than on
> > her finger tips. Odd...
>
> There's a Native American tribe in the northwest
> that did that, using a
> base 8.
>
I never noticed my sister doing it, really; it was my
mother who pointed it out. I would guess her "5"
would be outside the hand, alongside the pinky.
Clint
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