There is a flesh-account - a method of calculation by using parts of the body





Flesh account - a kind of finger counting, Engage and other parts of the human body in a certain order. As a rule, the primitive tribes that use this kind of notation, do not have a language in a sufficient number of words for numbers, so the same words can mean different numbers and can not be properly understood without the assistance of a sign language. Also there is no real number sequence, as is the case in the five-fold, octal, decimal, duodecimal or dvadtsatichnoy number systems. Thus, digital arithmetic Panza nation exhausted by the following figures:

(anus) - rectified right hand little finger; (Doro) - rectified the ring finger of the right hand; (Doro) - rectified the middle finger of his right hand; (Doro) - rectified right index finger; (ubei) - straightened his right thumb; (tama) - pointing to the right wrist; (unubo) - pointing to the right elbow; (Vis) - pointing to his right shoulder; (Denora) - pointing to the right ear; (Diti) - pointing to the right eye; (Diti) - pointing to the left eye; (Medo) - pointing to his nose; (Bay) - pointing to his mouth; (Denora) - pointing to the left ear; (Vis) - pointing to his left shoulder; (unubo) - pointing to the left arm; (tama) - pointing to his left wrist; (ubei) - rectified left thumb; (Doro) - rectified forefinger of his left hand; (Doro) - rectified the middle finger of his left hand; (Doro) - rectified the ring finger of his left hand; (anus) - straightened the little finger of his left hand.

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