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While account-keeping among the comparatively educated trades-people is in this condition, one can easily understand how very limited the Indian notions of calculation are. They cannot realize any number much over ten; and twenty cempoalli is with them the symbol of a great number, as a hundred was with the Greeks.
When we come to twenty, we have cempoalli, "one counting;" that is, one whole man, fingers and toes corresponding to the Vei word for twenty, "a person is finished." I think we need no more examples to show that people in almost all countries reckon by fives, tens, or twenties, merely because they began to count upon their fingers and toes.
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