Finger counting

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Finger counting, or dactylonomy, is the art of counting along one's fingers. Though marginalized in modern societies by the Arabic numeral system, formerly different systems flourished in many cultures, including educated methods far more sophisticated than the one-by-one finger count taught today in preschool education.

Finger counting can also serve as a form of manual communication, particularly in marketplace trading and also in games such as morra.

Finger counting is studied by ethnomathematics.

[edit] See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Counting gestures

• Finger binary
• Chisanbop
• Tally marks
• Colombian numerals
• Chinese number gestures

[edit] External links

counting in American Sign Language

[edit] References

• The Universal History of Numbers, Georges Ifrah

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