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... Counting by fingers and toes - Hand - numerals show derivation of Verbal reckoning from Gesture - counting - Etymology of Numerals -Quinary , Decimal , and Vigesimal notations of the world derived from counting on fingers and toes ...
... Counting by fingers and toes - Hand - numerals show derivation of Verbal reckoning from Gesture - counting - Etymology of Numerals -Quinary , Decimal , and Vigesimal notations of the world derived from counting on fingers and toes ...
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... Counting , which tend to prove that as to this point of culture at least , savage tribes reached their position by learning and not by unlearning , by elevation from a lower rather than by degradation from a higher state . Among ...
... Counting , which tend to prove that as to this point of culture at least , savage tribes reached their position by learning and not by unlearning , by elevation from a lower rather than by degradation from a higher state . Among ...
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... counting the remarkable ruins of buildings of hewn stone fitted without mortar which indicate the intrusion of more civilized foreigners into the gold region ! In North America , Father Charlevoix remarks of the Iroquois of the last ...
... counting the remarkable ruins of buildings of hewn stone fitted without mortar which indicate the intrusion of more civilized foreigners into the gold region ! In North America , Father Charlevoix remarks of the Iroquois of the last ...
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... counting , and see the evidence of tribe after tribe having obtained numerals through the primitive stage of counting on their fingers , we find a certain ethnographic interest in the games which teach this earliest numeration . The New ...
... counting , and see the evidence of tribe after tribe having obtained numerals through the primitive stage of counting on their fingers , we find a certain ethnographic interest in the games which teach this earliest numeration . The New ...
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... counting - games played with the fingers must not be confounded with the addition - game , where each player throws out a hand , and the sum of all the fingers shown has to be called , the successful caller scoring a point ; each should ...
... counting - games played with the fingers must not be confounded with the addition - game , where each player throws out a hand , and the sum of all the fingers shown has to be called , the successful caller scoring a point ; each should ...
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