[The Number Concept by Levi Leonard Conant]@TWC D-Link bookThe Number Concept CHAPTER III 76/103
ak kai zap tah = more 5. 16.
ak kai shak pah = more 6, etc. A still more primitive structure is shown in the numerals of the Mboushas[99] of Equatorial Africa.
Instead of using 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, or 2d 1, 2d 2, 2d 3, 2d 4, in forming their numerals from 6 to 9, they proceed in the following remarkable and, at first thought, inexplicable manner to form their compound numerals: 1.
ivoco. 2.
beba. 3.
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