Counting by 10s vs. 20s

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/23/2013 10:51 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>To me, the interesting question is why any move to a system based on 20
>took place when the Romans did not use one. What caused the change?

Resistance of oppressed colonials to imperial prerogatives.  As was
the cause of the American Revolution.

Joel


>DanG
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>On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:11 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > JB: <<Did  European serfs of colder Northern Europe wear shoes,
> > while the peasants of warmer Southern Europe went barefoot?>>
> > WB:  And Honest Abe kept score on fingers & toes. Too simple an
> > explanation. Must get social scientists to amass data, organized into
> > volumes of biometrical tables verified by ANOVA. Only then will everyone
> > forget what the question was and the problem goes away.
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