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单词 finger counting
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finger counting
finger counting adj. and n. (a) adj. that counts or calculates on or using the fingers; characterized by this; (b) n. the action or practice of counting or calculating in this way; a method of calculation using the fingers.Sophisticated methods of counting and calculating using finger-gestures are known to have been used by the ancient Greeks, Romans, and many other cultures.In early use chiefly with punning allusion to the dactyl as a metrical unit in prosody; cf. dactyl n. 2.
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finger counting1804
indigitation1826
1804 J. Thelwall Let. to F. Jeffray, Esq. 9 Hints to finger-counting Critics and modern Editors of ancient English Poets.
1822 Kalaidoscope 14 May 360/3 His ear is defective, which is a fault that cannot be remedied by finger counting.
1909 Classical Philol. 4 25 The Romans were..able to perfom complicated mathematical problems by means of the abacus and by a system of finger-counting.
1951 Cumberland (Maryland) News 28 Nov. 7/3 Modern electronic calculators..have taken machine mathematics out of the finger-counting stage.
2014 Frontiers in Psychol. 13 Feb. 149/1 Finger counting could be more effective for subtraction than for multiplication.
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