DACTYLONOMY
, the art of counting or numbering by the fingers.—The rule is this: the left thumb is reckoned 1, the index or fore-finger 2, and so on to the right thumb, which is the tenth or last, and consequently is denoted by the cipher 0.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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