Finger-counting, the Glossary
Finger-counting, also known as dactylonomy, is the act of counting using one's fingers.[1]
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54 relations: Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Americas, Ancient Egypt, Arab world, Arabic numerals, Aristide Marre, BBC Online, Bede, Book of the Dead, California, Chinese number gestures, Chisanbop, Counting, Decimal, Ethnomathematics, Finger binary, Gaulish, Hand game, Hand signaling (open outcry), Index finger, Inglourious Basterds, John D. Barrow, Little finger, Luca Pacioli, Manual communication, Marketplace, Maya numerals, Mexico, Middle finger, Morra (game), Muhammad in Islam, Octal, Old Kingdom of Egypt, Open outcry, Papua New Guinea, Parallel Lives, Phalanx bone, Pre-Columbian era, Prehistoric counting, Pyramid Texts, Quentin Tarantino, Ring finger, Shibboleth, Summa de arithmetica, Tally marks, Telefol language, Thumb, Vigesimal, Western world, Wiley (publisher), ... Expand index (4 more) »
Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani
Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī or Abū al-Wafā Būzhjānī (ابو الوفا بوژگانی, ابو الوفا بوزجانی; 10 June 940 – 15 July 998) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who worked in Baghdad.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Arab world
The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
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Arabic numerals
The ten Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are the most commonly used symbols for writing numbers.
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Aristide Marre
Eugène Aristide Marre (7 March 1823, Mamers (Sarthe) – 18 February 1918, aged 95, Vaucresson) was a French linguist.
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BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.
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Bede
Bede (Bēda; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk, author and scholar.
Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead is the name given to an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Chinese number gestures
Chinese number gestures are a method to signify the natural numbers one through ten using one hand.
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Chisanbop
Chisanbop or chisenbop (from Korean chi (ji) finger + sanpŏp (sanbeop) calculation 지산법/指算法), sometimes called Fingermath, is a finger counting method used to perform basic mathematical operations.
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Counting
Counting is the process of determining the number of elements of a finite set of objects; that is, determining the size of a set.
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Decimal
The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system and denary or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers.
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Ethnomathematics
In mathematics education, ethnomathematics is the study of the relationship between mathematics and culture.
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Finger binary
Finger binary is a system for counting and displaying binary numbers on the fingers of either or both hands.
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Gaulish
Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire.
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Hand game
Hand games are games played using only the hands of the players.
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Hand signaling (open outcry)
Hand signaling, also known as arb or arbing (short for arbitrage), is a system of hand signals used on financial trading floors to communicate buy and sell information in an open outcry trading environment.
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Index finger
The index finger (also referred to as forefinger, first finger, second finger, pointer finger, trigger finger, digitus secundus, digitus II, and many other terms) is the second digit of a human hand.
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Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent.
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John D. Barrow
John David Barrow (29 November 1952 – 26 September 2020) was an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician.
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Little finger
The little finger or pinkie, also known as the baby finger, fifth digit, or pinky finger, is the most ulnar and smallest digit of the human hand, and next to the ring finger.
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Luca Pacioli
Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli, O.F.M. (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; 1447 – 19 June 1517) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting.
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Manual communication
Manual communication systems use articulation of the hands (hand signs, gestures, etc.) to mediate a message between persons.
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Marketplace
A marketplace, market place, or just market, or mart is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.
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Maya numerals
The Mayan numeral system was the system to represent numbers and calendar dates in the Maya civilization.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
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Middle finger
The middle finger, long finger, second finger, third finger, toll finger or tall man is the third digit of the human hand, located between the index finger and the ring finger.
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Morra (game)
Morra is a hand game that dates back thousands of years to ancient Roman and Greek times.
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Muhammad in Islam
In Islam, Muḥammad (مُحَمَّد) is venerated as the Seal of the Prophets and earthly manifestation of primordial divine light (Nūr), who transmitted the eternal word of God (Qur'ān) from the angel Gabriel (Jabrāʾīl) to humans and jinn.
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Octal
Octal (base 8) is a numeral system with eight as the base.
Old Kingdom of Egypt
In ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom is the period spanning –2200 BC.
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Open outcry
Open outcry is a method of communication between professionals on a stock exchange or futures exchange, typically on a trading floor.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).
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Parallel Lives
The Parallel Lives (Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
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Phalanx bone
The phalanges (phalanx) are digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates.
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Pre-Columbian era
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.
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Prehistoric counting
Counting in prehistory was first assisted by using body parts, primarily the fingers.
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Pyramid Texts
The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom.
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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker and actor.
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Ring finger
The ring finger, third finger, fourth finger, leech finger, or annulary is the fourth digit of the human hand, located between the middle finger and the little finger.
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Shibboleth
A shibboleth (šībbōleṯ) is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another.
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Summa de arithmetica
Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita (Summary of arithmetic, geometry, proportions and proportionality) is a book on mathematics written by Luca Pacioli and first published in 1494.
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Tally marks
Tally marks, also called hash marks, are a form of numeral used for counting.
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Telefol language
Telefol is a language spoken by the Telefol people in Papua New Guinea, notable for possessing a base-27 numeral system.
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Thumb
The thumb is the first digit of the hand, next to the index finger.
Vigesimal
A vigesimal or base-20 (base-score) numeral system is based on twenty (in the same way in which the decimal numeral system is based on ten).
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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Yuki people
The Yuki (also known as Yukiah) are an indigenous people of California who were traditionally divided into three groups: Ukomno'om ("Valley People", or Yuki proper), Huchnom ("Outside the Valley"), and Ukohtontilka or Ukosontilka ("Ocean People", or Coast Yuki).
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Yutaka Nishiyama
is a Japanese mathematician and professor at the Osaka University of Economics, where he teaches mathematics and information.
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36 (number)
36 (thirty-six) is the natural number following 35 and preceding 37.
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6
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger-counting
Also known as Dactylonomy, Finger calculus, Finger counting, Gestures for counting, Number gesture.