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Innumeracy?

February 9, 2005 Rand Simberg

[Warning: Extreme Political Incorrectness Ahead!]

Here’s an interesting article that says that human tribes without words for numbers larger than very small numbers (e.g., one) have trouble counting:

Some argue that–at least until recently–the Pirah

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