[The Number Concept by Levi Leonard Conant]@TWC D-Link book
The Number Concept

CHAPTER III
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They mark one extreme, the extreme of brevity, found in the savage method of building up hand, foot, and finger names for numerals; while the Zuni scale marks the extreme of prolixity in the formation of such words.

A somewhat ruder composition than any yet noticed is shown in the numerals of the Vilelo scale,[83] which are: 1.

agit, or yaagit.
2.

uke.
3.

nipetuei.
4.


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