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dactylonomy
Oct. 9th, 2017 07:46 amShould have run this on Friday -- ah, well.
dactylonomy (dak-til-oh-NOH-mee) - n., the art of counting on one's fingers.
Different cultures use different fingering systems for enumerating just up to ten -- and then there are various systems for counting and adding/subtracting after that. Fun stuff. Wikipedia's article is not great, but is still interesting. Coined from Greek daktulos, finger + –nomia, law, used in the sense of an area of knowledge.
---L.
dactylonomy (dak-til-oh-NOH-mee) - n., the art of counting on one's fingers.
Different cultures use different fingering systems for enumerating just up to ten -- and then there are various systems for counting and adding/subtracting after that. Fun stuff. Wikipedia's article is not great, but is still interesting. Coined from Greek daktulos, finger + –nomia, law, used in the sense of an area of knowledge.
---L.
