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Ted: Ted Ed: How High Can You Count on Your Fingers? Spoiler:much Higher Than 10

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How high can you count on your fingers? It seems like a question with an obvious answer. After all, most of us have ten fingers- or to be more precise, eight fingers and two thumbs. This gives us a total of ten digits on our two hands, which we use to count to ten. But is that really as high as we can go? James Tanton investigates. [4:30]

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