Show Counting Done FI First t on Fingers Finger Men learned to- to count In tens because be- be cau cari cause e e. e they rhey happened to have ten ling lingers rs Primitive man would count ten on his fingers then make a mark ruark One South American tribe was discovered dig dis covered ered b by r the historian Cantor to be counting In iii this way three men sat lacing facing a 11 fourth man each of the three holding up his fingers for the fourth 0 o count The first mans man's ten fingers mid onil t thumbs represented units the se second sec sec- OIl ond mans man's fingers and thumbs thumb stood for tens and and- the third mans man's fingers i id iii HI thu thumbs b meant hundreds The fourth n man could thus tItus count up to 99 Cleveland Cle News Leader |