LizR wrote:
I think English, French, German all start composite numbers around 13? (Maybe a Christian influence?) I'm not sure you can deduce base 2 from "half-eyed" etc. And I imagine 5 was given a different design because it makes a full hand, so to speak. I imagine types of music that evolved would require some analysis of how it can be made, primitively? I guess everyone recognises that notes an octave apart sound "similar" (unfortunately we can't check if that's also true for colours - yet). Hm.
Maybe because base 12 is more sensible than base 10? The Babylonians, who had something to do with our numeral system, worked in base 60. Which is why we have 360 degrees in a circle, etc.
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