How high can you count on your fingers? (Spoiler: much higher than 10) - James Tanton
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How high can you count on your fingers? It seems
like a question with an obvious answer. After all, most of us have ten
fingers -- or to be more precise, eight fingers and two thumbs. This
gives us a total of ten digits on our two hands, which we use to count
to ten. But is that really as high as we can go? James Tanton investigates.
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- Educator
- James Tanton
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- Lisa LaBracio
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- Alex Gendler
- Sound Designer
- Weston Fonger
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- Kaitlyn Carroll
