Your middle finger is only your middle finger if you also count your thumb as a finger. Which I find hard to accept. @showerthoughts 🖕
Your middle finger is only your middle finger if you also count your thumb as a finger. Which I find hard to accept. @showerthoughts 🖕
Each finger is conveniently split into 3 parts. Using 8 fingers we can count to 24 without resorting to any fancy math.
Just go base 2 and you can count to 31 without using knuckles
True, although I would put binary in the “fancy math” category.
Actually can count to 144 or a gross if you use base 12. One hand for the ones place and the other hand for the dozens.
I’ve always wonder if it was worth the effort of learning base 12 mental arithmetic.
Depends if you’re a farmer or merchant without access to electronics.
That’s the point most westerners seem to miss. There are so many ways to use fingers to count, while the one common in Europe the simplest one possible. It’s like demo version, while some other countries get the full pro ultra max edition.
But this isn’t about counting on fingers. It’s about counting fingers. As in, the fingers themselves are what’s being counted when you talk about your “middle finger”.
Fair enough. This was an unnecessary side tangent.