Learning math is easier in some languages
Mar 07, 2019
2 minutes
My family is planning a trip to Japan, and I’m trying to learn a bit of the language before we go. The textbook I bought begins by teaching counting, and I have been struck by how precisely Japanese encodes the base-10 number system used by, or “4 thousand, 5 hundred, 9 ten, 6.”
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