finger-counting

Before the widespread availability of paper and pencil, numbers were often communicated through elaborate finger-counting sign languages.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

Before the widespread availability of paper and pencil, numbers were often communicated through elaborate finger-counting sign languages.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

Before the widespread availability of paper and pencil, numbers were often communicated through elaborate finger-counting sign languages.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

Seidenberg in km, a widespread root for ten 1976: "The effort to relate km or kmt to *handus, or, more generally said, to see a reference to the hands in the number words, is also ad hoc: there is not the slightest evidence, apart from similar speculations on the other numbers, that the Indo-European number words are derived from finger-counting."

Searching for an etymology for Germanic *handuz 'hand' 2009

Seidenberg in km, a widespread root for ten 1976: "The effort to relate km or kmt to *handus, or, more generally said, to see a reference to the hands in the number words, is also ad hoc: there is not the slightest evidence, apart from similar speculations on the other numbers, that the Indo-European number words are derived from finger-counting."

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

I spent about a half hour this morning hitting reset, watching it get through about a third of its finger-counting routine and then stop, swearing, and hitting reset again.

ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

He eventually created a series of texts taking students from finger-counting through calculus.

Psst, Kid, Wanna Buy A. . . 2008

Referees should use an official score sheet or develop a reliable finger-counting method.

THE OFFICIAL ROCK PAPER SCISSORS STRATEGY GUIDE DOUGLAS WALKER 2004

Referees should use an official score sheet or develop a reliable finger-counting method.

THE OFFICIAL ROCK PAPER SCISSORS STRATEGY GUIDE DOUGLAS WALKER 2004

These are the finger-counting days when the movies are like the national elections.

The Tedium on Mars 2000