Apart from having 10 fingers, is there any other reason we count until 10 and then repeat?

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Apart from having 10 fingers, is there any other reason we count until 10 and then repeat?

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It’s entirely convention. The ancient Egyptians used a base-12 numbering system (which is a million times better, since it 12 is readily divisible by 2,3,4, and 6).

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