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2. Yan tan tethera - Wikipedia

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   Yan Tan Tethera or yan-tan-tethera is a sheep-counting system traditionally used by shepherds in Northern England and some other parts of Britain. The words are numbers taken from Brythonic Celtic languages such as Cumbric which had died out in most of Northern England by the sixth century, but they were commonly used for sheep counting and counting stitches in knitting until the Industrial ...

3. Shut the box - Wikipedia

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   3 down extreme – Numbers 1–3 are pre-dropped, leaving numbers 4–9 up. Lucky number 7 – The only number up is 7, and the first person to roll a 7 wins. Unlucky number 7 – A standard game, when a 7 is rolled, the game stops. Against all odds – All odd numbers are up and evens down. Even Stevens – All even numbers are up and odds down.

4. List of types of numbers - Wikipedia

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   Ternary: The base-three numeral system with 0, 1, and 2 as digits. Quaternary: The base-four numeral system with 0, 1, 2, and 3 as digits. Hexadecimal: Base 16, widely used by computer system designers and programmers, as it provides a more human-friendly representation of binary-coded values.

5. Tally marks - Wikipedia

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   Tally marks, also called hash marks, are a form of numeral used for counting. They can be thought of as a unary numeral system. They are most useful in counting or tallying ongoing results, such as the score in a game or sport, as no intermediate results need to be erased or discarded. However, because of the length of large numbers, tallies ...

6. Counting - Wikipedia

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   Counting is the process of determining the number of elements of a finite set of objects; that is, determining the size of a set. The traditional way of counting consists of continually increasing a (mental or spoken) counter by a unit for every element of the set, in some order, while marking (or displacing) those elements to avoid visiting the same element more than once, until no unmarked ...

7. Numberjacks - Wikipedia

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   11 December 2009. ( 2009-12-11) Numberjacks is a British animated/live-action children's television series, aimed particularly at children aged two to five, shown regularly on CBeebies and occasionally on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. It was also formerly shown on Tiny Pop until the year 2018.