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To: happygrl; aculeus; dighton; Lijahsbubbe

A study of an Amazonian tribe is stoking fierce debate about whether people can count without numbers.

Send in the bureaucrats. That'll teach 'em.

13 posted on 08/21/2004 3:33:46 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal

To: Thinkin' Gal; happygrl; dighton; Lijahsbubbe

A study of an Amazonian tribe is stoking fierce debate about whether people can count without numbers.

When are the researchers going to address really challenging problems?

Such as, do lepers who have lost one or more digits to their disease switch to something other than a base-10 numeric system?

18 posted on 08/21/2004 4:13:03 PM PDT by aculeus

To: Thinkin' Gal

Send in the bureaucrats

Yeah. I bet if they were getting welfare checks, they'd learn to count real quick.

45 posted on 08/23/2004 10:57:27 AM PDT by happygrl

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