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The Number Concept

CHAPTER III
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caya ente-tey = 2 hands + 1.
15.

toazumba-ente = 3 hands.
16.

toazumba-ente-tey = 3 hands + 1.
20.

caesea ente = 4 hands.
In the last chapter mention was made of the scanty numeral systems of the Australian tribes, but a single scale was alluded to as reaching the comparatively high limit of 20.

This system is that belonging to the Pikumbuls,[80] and the count runs thus: 1.


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