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Sebastian Holt; David Barner – Cognitive Science, 2025
Humans count to indefinitely large numbers by recycling words from a finite list, and combining them using rules--for example, combining sixty with unit labels to generate sixty-one, sixty-two, and so on. Past experimental research has focused on children learning base-10 systems, and has reported that this rule learning process is highly…
Descriptors: Computation, Numbers, Adult Students, Number Concepts

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