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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So proud of him!

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ackchyually humans have 10 fingers, indexed 0 to 9

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

yea imagine if 0 was worth 1 all of a sudden

[–] Nariom 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

by that logic finger 2 is worth 2, 3 worth 3 and so on? so you have 45 fingers?!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

1 - 1 = 1

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess we're counting the thumb fingers now. 😜🤪😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Even if we aren't OP is still wrong; we'd have 8 fingers, if we don't count thumbs, even if we index them from 0-7. The only way 9 works is when someone doesn't have the common number of digits.