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Old 01-17-2007, 10:18 AM
jtr jtr is offline
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Default Re: Counting Chips Quickly

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(One example: people were counting chips ten at a time by comparing the height to one person's stack of ten. But in comparing them, they started to mix different peoples' stacks together! I think that was the origin of the miscount.)

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Hmm... perhaps a wall chart of the integers from 1 to 20 would come in handy?
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