One Million

1,000,000.

Doesn’t seem like a lot does it? Some cultures – like the Pirahã in Central America, or the Walpiri in Australia – use a one-two-many system * This should be noted that one-two-many is a generalization. There are subtleties in the counting methods of both cultures, that upon deeper inspection, may not necessarily conform to the normal understanding of the one-two-many theory . I would contend that all humans use a superset form of one-two-many.

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