Re: [tied] Numbers.

--- markodegard@... escribió:

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> I'm suggesting our ancestors did not think in
> numbers, but rather, in
> sets, collectives. My speculation is that what
> 'numerals' they had
> were actually nouns describing such sets.
>

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> While we learn the number system early and quickly
> in childhood, it
> seems to not be an intrinsically intuitive thing.
> It's something that
> has to be taught.
>
> Thoughts?
>

I share your idea. I've been also thinking about this
subject the last days. Have you noticed that we
haven't coins of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.... (ptas.,
dollars, euros...)? Instead, we usually have coins of
1, (2), 5, (10), 25, 50, 100... and we manage rather
well with them.

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