Decius wrote:
] ] According to De Pasquale, the circles in the cells are
] ] nothing but the first numbers of the Fibonacci series, in
] ] which each number is a sum of two previous: 1, 2, 3, 5.
] ]
] ]
] ] The abacus would then work on a base 40 numbering system.
]
] sounds pretty cool, if unverifiable for the time being.

"You look long enough at anything and you will see everything you want to"

Fibonacci sequences occur alot in nature, and the world. Finding something that matches a pattern hardly means you found a match.

While I enjoy learning about mezo-american culture, I think it would be neat to see more about this. Occam's Razor it. Why is our number system base ten? We have ten fingers. Are other number bases faster? Sure, but we use base ten because it is easiest. I 'd like to think the Incan's were super smart and decided I know, we will use base 40 instead of base 10. but I doubt this

RE: Incan Counting System Decoded?