Comments on: Tukey tallying

By: the cyclist

the cyclist — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:50:25 +0000

I learned to encircle two groups of five, to make it easier to identify each group of ten. I think this make identification of the number on par with Tukey’s method.

By: Bob Myers

Bob Myers — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:33:12 +0000

No, Ben, not the kanji for “5″ (五), but the one for “correct” (”tadashii”, or 正). The character for 5 actually has four strokes, counting the third “over and down” stroke as one; no Japanese would ever consider this two strokes or break it in two when writing. The “correct” character, on the other hand, has exactly five strokes and it is trivial to see at a glance what the current count is (the order is top horizontal, middle vertical, right horizontal middle line, left vertical line, and bottom line). I’m most familiar with its use at bars to count the number of carafes of sake I have had.

The link Dennis gives shows this.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:14:40 +0000

Wikipedia has it (the Chinese version):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_marks

By: Ben Espen

Ben Espen — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:52:57 +0000

In Japanese I have seen tallying using the kanji for 5, which is the same in Chinese. There are 5 lines to make the character for 5, and a defined stroke order for each one, so you always know where you left off.

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By: Andrew Gelman

Andrew Gelman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:15:28 +0000

There’s a standard system in Chinese to do this. I can’t remember it exactly but it seems to work pretty well for them.