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

CHAPTER VII
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pesedgiete = 5-10.
60.

giastedgiete = 6-10, etc.
Among the almost countless dialects of Africa we find a comparatively small number of vigesimal number systems.

The powers of the negro tribes are not strongly developed in counting, and wherever their numeral scales have been taken down by explorers they have almost always been found to be decimal or quinary-decimal.

The small number I have been able to collect are here given.

They are somewhat fragmentary, but are as complete as it was possible to make them.
AFFADEH.[338] 10.


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