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You got 6 digits on each hand?
Actually you can count to 12 quite neatly on one hand. Simply take your thumb and place it on the bottom segment of your little finger. Excluding your thumb, you have 12 segments on your fingers.
As you count, move your thumb up one segment, switching to the next finger when you reach the top. This way you can count to 12 on one hand.
And how would I signal 5 at a distance?
You do realize you can still count up to 5 with your fingers even if we used a different numeral system? So you would signal in the exact same way that you do now. Or you know, just shout or something? How often do you need to signal a small number from a distance?
Me? Rarely, but my stage manager does it at least nightly
You have (normally) 4 fingers with 3 phalanxes each, plus a fifth one (the thumb) to point at each one of those phalanxes.