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The Number Concept

CHAPTER III
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haikia doatn = 2d from 10?
10.

doatn habe.
Systems like the above, where chaos instead of order seems to be the ruling principle, are of occasional occurrence, but they are decidedly the exception.
In some of the cases that have been adduced for illustration it is to be noticed that the process of combination begins with 7 instead of with 6.
Among others, the scale of the Pigmies of Central Africa[103] and that of the Mosquitos[104] of Central America show this tendency.

In the Pigmy scale the words for 1 and 6 are so closely akin that one cannot resist the impression that 6 was to them a new 1, and was thus named.
MOSQUITO.

PIGMY.
1.

kumi.


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