Till how much can u count using ur fingers?4,5,8,9,10,12,16,20!!! Indian – Hindu – American – European – Asian _ Japanese

Till how much can u count using ur fingers?

don’t think about it, just start counting 1,2,3,,4… n

Use u Hands ie. Fingers to tally mark with ur fingers. as u count. to make  it easier close ur eyes. (samjha kya? ;-]]).

TRY.

count with ur fingers,

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NOW

Till how much can u count…

4,5,8,9,10,12,16,20!!!

(HINT-n the correct answer is the no. u choose froom the above…)

This is a kind of ethno-cognitive-kindda thing.

then see a video link i have posted on the web, n it kinds of shows,

How u can know/guess! how a person thinks, its a simple, thing, n u realise this when u not in India or related eastern countries

if ur answer is…, then u might be, thinking like a…

4 – American, African ( n u start with ur index finger, of the LEFT HAND.

5 – don’t know/African – who did not under stand the question, exactly.

9 – Japanese – (start with little finger of the right hand (n count till4) n then they start w/ the  lil finger of the Left hand, n count till 5 on this hand!!!)

10-  english/ european (start w/ index finger n use the other hand, to casp the finger being – counted. 9 n 10 are always the Thumbs!)

12 or 16-Indian (they use the Joints of the Fingures to count upto 3/4 on each finger. Hence 4 anna(one finger) 8 anna(2 fingers. notice its double SIZE, n 1 finger more n also  50 paisa is still called 8 anna in a lot of place in India still, even though its over 40 yrs since the annas stopped.

another reason why INDIANS only count up to 16, might be the way Hindus worship,  mantra-jaap, not all Hindus use beads to tally the no. of times they have recieted the mantra. usually in hindus the number is 108 or 1008 (some  BINARY thing!)

20-South Indian ( same as above, but there some how manage to!)

All the above statements/representation made, are true, to the best of my knowdlege n percetions,

I have done/still on… an experiment on a lot of travellers, who i bump, into. Randomly.

but by the end of it BOTH of US are WISER.

n a simple smile is the reward.

.-]

ps. its’ a thing i haave noticed for a long time, while travelling around the continents.
n I “realised” that WE the Indians are the only ones who can count up to 20 on their hands,
ask an american n he will take off His SHOES ;-]]]

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ABUGIDA – WILT.

Abugida

Abugida is a writing system, a Class, of HINDI/DEVNAGRI like SCRIPTS…

that basically ADD or RMOVE the VOWELs by MAKING CHANGES, to the alphabet…

 

considering SMS lingo, it makes a lot of sense to know, what HINDI HAS BEEN THRU,

 

imagine the posibilities of ENLARGING the KEYBOARD PALLETE, by simple “transform” keys like SHIFT/ alt/…

a New transform key, say “pulls” the BASE of the alphabet towards itself/opp/left/right..

a new key FLOP/mirror-image

a new key to insert the HORIZONTAL bar in hindi, using a regular KB/ unicode/ascii set of keys.

An abugida (pronounced /ˌɑːbuːˈɡiːdə/, from Ge‘ez አቡጊዳ ’äbugida),

 is a writing system which is

based on consonants, and in which vowel notation is obligatory but secondary.

This contrasts with an alphabet proper, with an abjad, in which vowel marking is absent or optional.

The term abugida is an Ethiopian name of the Ge‘ez script, ’ä bu gi da, taken from four letters of the Ge’ez script, the way ABeCeDary derives from Latin a be ce de. (A B C D   )

In general, a letters are written as a linear sequence, in most cases left to right.

Vowels are written through modification of these consonant letters,

either by means of diacritics (which may be opposite of direction of writing the letters)

or by changes in the form of the letter itself.

• a modification which explicitly indicates the lack of a vowel (virama),
• a lack of vowel marking
• vowel marking for a short or neutral vowel
• conjunct consonant letters where two or more letters are graphically joined in a ligature, or
• dependent consonant signs,(smaller or differently placed versions of the full consonant letters, or may be distinct signs altogether).

or superscript.

There are three principal families of abugidas, depending on whether vowels are indicated by modifying consonants by diacritics, distortion, or orientation.^[4]

• The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia,

 in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, or are indicated with ligatures, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

In the Ethiopic family, vowels are marked by modifying the shapes of the consonants, Pulling the Letter.

In the Cree family, vowels are marked by rotating or flipping the consonants, or are indicated with either special diacritics or superscript forms of the main initial consonants.

The Indic scripts originated in India and spread to Southeast Asia.

All surviving Indic scripts are descendants of the Brahmi alphabet.  Today they are used in most languages of South Asia (although replaced by Perso-Arabic in Urdu, n Kashmiri) and mainland Southeast Asia

They can be a  primary division is into

• North Indic scripts used in Northern India, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and
• Southern Indic scripts used in South India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia.

South Indic letter forms are very rounded; North Indic less so

Most North Indic scripts’ full letters incorporate a horizontal line at the top, with Gujarati script an exception; South Indic scripts do not.

Indic scripts indicate vowels through dependent vowel signs (diacritics) around the consonants, often including a sign that explicitly indicates the lack of a vowel. If a consonant has no vowel sign, this indicates a default vowel. Vowel diacritics may appear above, below, to the left, to the right, or around the consonant.

The most populous Indic script is Devanagari,

 

; the advent of vowels coincided with the introduction of Christianity about 350 CE

Science to Religion. Get a Life! or Hinduism- Scientifically PROVEN or how to…

PLEASE DON’T QUOTE, SCIENCE, at the drop of a hat.

a case in point is the “cherry picking” lines off Carl Sagan”, if i get the source right, the orgins of Carl Sagan’s statement lies, in his TV series The COSMOS. (?) well to complete the story Carl’s, offers an open CHALLENGE to all, to PROVE IT (religion in this case), “scientifically.” ie. repeatable, independently, Now to point. Why does a religion, even bother to get a VERIFIED/CERTIFIED BY SCIENCE, stamp in the first place. Religion exists where science doe not. n looking in hind-sight, an mooling over who, DISCOVERED the PYTHAGOROAS Theorem, SHOW US SOME KNOWLEDGE, that the SAID SACRED VEDDAS have. well that hasn’t been SOURCED from out-side… …if u want to prove that the HARRAPAN culture was VEDIC, then the burden of proof lies with u. since u make this claim, proove it.

at-least start by COLLECTING A PICTORIAL RECORD OF ALL THE HARRAPAN inscriptions…

My first Book!

its gonna be a story, of Creation, n Evolution,

from the Big bang to Hiroshima,

origins of life,

where we come frm n where we r where r we headed,

en-route I plan to take on the concept of god, religion, the Vatican…

Cultures, language, history of science, Bible, Koran, Egypt, Moses…

unimaginably large number – Googolplex

A googol is the large number 10 raised to the power of 100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

• The term was coined in 1938[1] by Milton Sirotta (1911–1981), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, when he was nine years old

The Great Carl Sagan say a Googolplex is as far from infinitey as number 1

“A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number one.” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos

It is used it to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity,

• Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

A googolplex is ten raised to the power of one googol:

10^googol = 10^(10100).

In the documentary Cosmos, astronomer and broadcast personality Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in base-10 numerals (i.e., 1 followed by a googol of zeroes) would be…

…physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe provides.

In the January 23, 1963, Peanuts strip, Lucy asks Schroeder what the chances are of them getting married, and Schroeder responds “Oh, I’d say about ‘googol’ to one.”

There is also an analogous system of Sanskrit terms for fractional numbers, capable of dealing with both very large and very small numbers.

Larger number in Buddhism works up to Bukeshuo bukeshuo zhuan or 10^{37218383881977644441306597687849648128}, which appeared as Bodhisattva‘s maths in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra.^[1][2] , though chapter 30 (the Asamkyeyas) in Thomas Cleary’s translation of it we find the definition of the number “untold” as exactly 10^(10*2^122) expanded in the 2nd verses to 10^(45*2^121) and continuing a similar expansion indeterminately.

A few large numbers used in India by about 5th century BCE

• koti —10⁷
• ayuta —10⁹
• niyuta —10¹¹
• kankara —10¹³
• pakoti —10¹⁴
• vivara —10¹⁵
• kshobhya —10¹⁷
• vivaha —10¹⁹
• kotippakoti —10²¹
• bahula —10²³
• nagabala —10²⁵
• nahuta —10²⁸
• titlambha —10²⁹
• vyavasthanapajnapati —10³¹
• hetuhila —10³³
• ninnahuta —10³⁵
• hetvindriya —10³⁷
• samaptalambha —10³⁹
• gananagati —10⁴¹
• akkhobini —10⁴²
• niravadya —10⁴³
• mudrabala —10⁴⁵
• sarvabala —10⁴⁷
• bindu —10⁴⁹
• sarvajna —10⁵¹
• vibhutangama —10⁵³
• abbuda —10⁵⁶
• nirabbuda —10⁶³
• ahaha —10⁷⁰
• ababa —10⁷⁷
• atata —10⁸⁴
• soganghika —10⁹¹
• uppala —10⁹⁸
• kumuda —10¹⁰⁵
• pundarika —10¹¹²
• paduma —10¹¹⁹
• kathana —10¹²⁶
• mahakathana —10¹³³
• asankheya —10¹⁴⁰
• dhvajagranishamani —10⁴²¹

Hindu Measurements n Numbers