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16449	Conant, Levi L. (Levi Leonard)	The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development			.txt	text/plain	56599	9461	88	methods of counting and of giving visible expression to the idea of number. method of counting,--or, in other words, of grasping the idea of number. of the negro tribes of South Africa[15] the little finger of the right hand little finger of the left hand, the natives counted up to 5 in the usual count on the same fingers, they expressed the numbers from 6 to 10 by number of native words in its numeral scale as English; and the same may be observed in the formation of any numeral scale, though the actual number of counting has been, finger origin for numeral words has by no means been a pure numeral instead of by some word meaning _hand_ or _fingers of one tribes, count by digit numerals, and form their twenties as follows:[118] point to 20, the numeral words in both scales are such as to show that the	./cache/16449.txt	./txt/16449.txt