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How Many Fingers?

October 20th, 2006 by mathchallenger




Have you ever wondered how our number system was created?  Why we count 1 to 10 and if there are any connections to how many fingers we have?  Imagine our number system if we only had eight fingers.  How would we count, add, subtract, multiply and divide?  What if we only had 6 fingers or only 2 fingers?  How would math be different?

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  1.   CW said,

    on October 24th, 2006 at 12:23 pm

    WE could use calculators.

  2.   Emily M said,

    on December 2nd, 2006 at 1:21 pm

    Yes we could use calculators or we can use our toes

  3.   Jenny Zhang said,

    on December 9th, 2006 at 9:45 pm

    We could always use our toes!!

  4.   Kaitlyn Sabourin said,

    on April 13th, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    I can’t even comprehend that. It goes straight over my head.

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