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Tom Hunter ccth6600 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 02:35:01 CST 2021


I too count sheep with my fingers, but I never get past zero due to the
lack of sheep.    :-)

Tom Hunter

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 5:34 PM Tor Arntsen via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 03:27, dwight via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> > If we'd thought about it we could count to 1023 on our fingers.
> > Dwight
>
> Some sheep herders in (IIRC) the Caucasus do, or did at least. I
> learned about that some decades ago. Counting sheep on their fingers.
> I use the system sometimes.
>
> -Tor
>


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