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My 6-year old son just told me humans have 9 fingers, not 10 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by idefix@sh.itjust.works to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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So proud of him!

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[–] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Ackchyually humans have 10 fingers, indexed 0 to 9

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Eight fingers and two thumbs for ten digits.

[–] 342345@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just realised that digits translates to Finger in german. And finger also translates to Finger. But you have 10 of the former and 8 of the latter. Funny.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's as if people used their fingers when starting counting things... How weird

[–] 342345@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You mean used their digits? There are only 8 fingers. But then there is also the octal system. And together with a friend you could count in hexadecimal... :)

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't we have 1010 fingers though, 101 on each hand?

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

It's just A finger, really

[–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We taught our daughter to count starting at zero. Her kindergarten teacher was not amused.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Counting starts at one, indexing starts at zero.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

I didn't want to spoil their fun, but I'm glad you did. That kid's going to experience an embarassing moment of parental disillusionment the first time they try to be clever with a halfway competent math teacher.