counting 247, 249, 251, 260
numerical abilities 13, 14, 15, 25, 28
Florence 164
food management 3
fractions 120, 127, 129, 143, 149–50, 152, 160, 181
French Revolution (1789) 129, 130
frescoes 117
functional magnetic resonance imaging 22
games, counting 255–61, 255
ganitas 142
Gentleman’s Magazine 176
geometry 99, 121, 143, 151, 157, 193
Gerbert of Aurillac 158–9, 164
gesture, counting with 36, 203
Anindilyakwa 229–30, 233, 234
finger-counting and see finger-counting
hands, counting with see hands, counting with
Oceania and 5, 226, 229–30, 233, 234, 235–43, 237, 243, 252, 260, 285
Oksapmin and 235–43, 237, 252
origins of 47–56, 47, 58
Pirahã and 285
Yup’ik and 260
Gordon, Peter 282–3
grammatical number 61
Greece
alphabetic number symbols 101–11, 139, 149, 154, 183
Arabic numerals and 181
counter culture of ancient 99–100, 101–11, 103, 112, 113, 118–20, 127
counting boards and 118–20, 127, 198
Egyptian script under Greek domination 70, 92–8
numbers as a shared illusion, philosophers’ thoughts on 65
Roman finger-counting system and 112, 113
vote counting in 99, 100, 101–11, 103, 112
Gregorian calendar 160
Gutenberg, Johannes 174
halved-body procedure 242–3
hand, counting by
cave art and 1, 47–56, 47, 73
number bases and 60–1
Oksapmin and 237–9
