In which I attempt to answer the question "What even is a number?" for a friend. https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2019-02-18-08:58.html …
There’s an interesting thing people do to count sheep in Yorkshire, which is yan tan tethra. Also used in knitting! But @_awbery_ grew up with it, which seemed magical and exotic to me because I learned about it in a YA fantasy book. By Pratchett I think. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera …
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sounds like we're having similar thought patterns today

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Ha, snap.
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