"Edward Green" wrote in message
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"Tom Potter" wrote in message
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It is no accident that finger counting is an almost universal stage in
the
child's learning of arithmetic
(though it is unclear where one ancient New Guinea culture fits in -
it has a 33 base system, which includes toes, testicles and penis, said
Prof
Butterworth)."

ROTFL, even if you made that up! Imagine the embarassment when first
doing business with this culture, and your contact begins counting on
his genitals. Can women count too in this society?


Not only would women count, mathematics would be this societies oldest
profession.