There are actually ten numbers, "zero" included. And that number system is based on the fact that the first people who started counting used their ten fingers. Maybe if we evolved with 6 fingers we'd be using base 6 number system.
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At 05:06 PM 6/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi All,
> I've become seriously interested in numerology latley. Does anyone have
>any info on why in numerology the numbers only go up to nine? There are
>seven colors of the spectrum, seven notes on a scale, why nine numbers?
>And speaking of the spectrum I heard from a science student years ago
>that there weren't really seven colors, but six. Newton picked seven out
>of a theory, and because he was an alchemist. Any truth to this? The
>seventh being indigo I believe.
> Later,
> Michael
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