Counting On Fingers- Not Quite So Simple?

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 16:50 in Health & Medicine

Everyone (who can count) will instantly recognise the numbers 1 2&3 in the picture below:Or will they? Well, no they won’t.All is explained in an article for Osaka Keidai Ronshu, Vol. 60 number 5, where Professor Yutaka Nishiyama (Osaka University of Economics, Japan) lists many crucial variations in finger-counting across the world. read more

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