Missing Page Number - 2. The Shift From Lunar to Solar Calendars and Counting
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Query: 2. The Shift From Lunar to Solar Calendars and Counting
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Historians of mathematics infer that archaic populations must have counted on their toes as well as their fingers from the widespread systems of 20-based counting (see Menninger[1] 1969).
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- ↑ Karl Menninger, Number Words and Number Symbols. A Cultural History of Numbers (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1969 [1958]).