Slightly more than half of the non-finger-counters were good arithmeticians, who presumably had outgrown needing to use their fingers.

在这些不使用手指运算的儿童中，大约有一半的儿童有着优秀的算术能力，他们大概已经可以脱离手指来帮助进行计算。

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Among what arithmeticians refer to as the very small numbers (one, two, three, four, five, etc.), number inflation is detectable only with fine scientific instruments.

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