Re: Counting on fingers (was: Re: [CONLANG] A question regarding dictionary entries)

On 8/1/07, Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
> I have thought about how octal and duodecimal counting may
> arise in a language of five-fingered humans thru either
> not using the thumbs when counting, or adding the palms to
> get six positions on each hand.
I recently read about a group of people somewhere who count not on
their finger(tip)s, but on the spaces between the fingers, therefore
also arriving at an octal system.

I'm afraid I don't remember further details, though, but I think the
context was a natlang.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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