"...since numerals and counting are based on recursion in the language according to some researchers, then the absence of recursion in their language predicts a lack of counting."I'd never encountered the idea that numerals/counting are based on recursion, and unfortunately that statement wasn't referenced in the article. I can kind of understand why that might be, but am kind of shaky and would like to read some more on the topic. Would anyone either be able to point me in the right direction or explain the idea a little more here?
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Interpretation of the Legend
(inscriptions on the Kushan Kingdom coins / надписи на монетах Кушанского царства)
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I would be most grateful if anyone could help me out with a Spanish idiom, an expression appearing in a discussion of torture from the late 18th…
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