Re: Other bases was Re: Numbers from 1-10
| From: | Andrew Patterson <endipatterson@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 31, 2003, 9:49 |
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Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote:
My now-forgotten source explained that the speakers of this language did
not count on their fingers, as many other cultures do. Instead, they
counted using the spaces between their fingers -- hence, base eight.
Interesting, the dozenal society of Great Britain suggests counting on the
joints of the fingers of one hand using the thumb to count in base twelve.
Andrew Patterson
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