Counting by 10s vs. 20s

[Dan Goncharoff]

Wait -- which colonials? What colonies did the French have in the Middle
Ages?

DanG


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> 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?
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> Resistance of oppressed colonials to imperial prerogatives.  As was
> the cause of the American Revolution.
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> Joel
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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
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> > > forget what the question was and the problem goes away.
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