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Universal History of Numbers
October 11, 2007
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I would recommend Georges Ifrah's Universal History of Numbers as a starting point for understanding counting behavior in a cross-cultural. You can find it on Amazon. Sorry, don't have an ISBN. Most anthropologists will tell you that humans don't have the native ability to distinguish numbers above three. Counting is a learned behavior. Obviously there are exceptions - people who have the ability to "see" the right answers to arithmetic problems without resorting to counting or arithmetic.