Did you solve it? Numbers in New Guinea
by Alex Bellos from Science | The Guardian on (#5N437)
The answers to today's counting conundrum
Earlier today I set you the following problem about how to count in Ngkolmpu, a language spoken by about 100 people in New Guinea.
Ngkolmpu does not have a base ten system like English does. In other words, it doesn't count in tens, hundreds and thousands. Beyond its different base, however, it behaves very regularly.
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