Counting higher than fingers and toes
Mar 14, 2019
2 minutes
From English to Mandarin to Spanish, most languages with hundreds of millions of speakers use a base-10 number system, as we discussed in the column last week. Linguists speculate that this system developed independently around the world because it was inspired by the most obvious tools we
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