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'Finger counting', or 'dactylonomy', is the art of counting along one's fingers. Though marginalized in modern societies by the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, formerly different systems flourished in many cultures, including educated methods far more sophisticated than the one-by-one finger count taught today in preschool education.
Finger counting can also serve as a form of manual communication, particularly in marketplace trading and also in games such as morra.
Finger counting is studied by ethnomathematics.

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See also

★ Finger binary

★ Tally marks

References

★ ''The Universal History of Numbers'', Georges Ifrah