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Re:Finger counting gives away your nationality by jdavis703 on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:50PM (#28409251)
I’m fairly certain I was taught the unary counting system in either kindergarten or 1st grade. And I wasn’t even in an advanced course.
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Re:Finger counting gives away your nationality by dylan604 on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:54PM (#28409297)
Timmy has 1 rock. Johnny gives Timmy 1 rock. Timmy now has 1 rock. Jenny gives 1 rock to Timmy. Timmy has 1 rock.
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Re:Finger counting gives away your nationality by wizzwizz4 on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:33PM (#28409668)
– zero

0 – one

00 – two

000 – three

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Re:Finger counting gives away your nationality by dylan604 on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:06PM (#28409945)
I think that's noary math instead of unary. or maybe nonary/nunary(can only count women in habits)/zipary/nilary/???
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