Throughout her career the focus has generally been on counting numbers and lining up factional support rather than coming up with big ideas.

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Is it possible to work out how many kinds of chocolate there are, and their relative numbers, without tipping them all out on the floor and counting the number of each type?

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The bottom line is that human beings have brains capable of counting to high numbers and manipulating them, so we use mathematics as a useful tool to describe the world around us.

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The parental emotion is as simple as a learning to count and as strange as discovering that the series of numbers, the counting, never ends.

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The President is also counting on young and minority voters to turn out in numbers closer to 2008 than 2010.

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To test the theory, researchers gave 132 participants one of three tasks: using tweezers to remove small pieces from slots in the Japanese equivalent of the board game Operation, counting the appearances of a digit in a block of numbers, and a reaction time test.

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