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comment by cliffelam
cliffelam  ·  4675 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AskHubski: What are the top ten most positively influential events in human history?
I've won a TON of money in bars (and not beaten up once!) with this question.

You can count to 144 easily using your hands - thus the importance of "gross" in every society.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk0hO4oDnzo

There are several ways to do this sort of counting. I like this guys, but that is not actually how it is done in most places.

Use your power wisely, always for good, never for evil.

-XC





JakobVirgil  ·  4675 days ago  ·  link  ·  
what if you count the meta-carpals that would give you base 20 and would let you count to 400. edit: I can not believe I said tarsals [embarrassed]
newgameplus  ·  4675 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Lol, I edited that right as you were posting.