Counting with the Fingers (Special Issue of the Faculty of Information Management; Studies Presented to Prof. Izumi Watanabe on his Retirement)
豊 西山 · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2010
It has been written that across the world there are 17 types of counting method using the fingers. For example, there are various methods for starting to count 'one' by bending their left little finger. Counting using the fingers differs according to region, ethnicity, and historical period. This chapter also discusses the 'evolutionary theory' of counting methods.