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My 6-year old son just told me humans have 9 fingers, not 10
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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.
Digit is Ziffer in German
That too yes
It's as if people used their fingers when starting counting things... How weird
Me casually using base-12 (Mesopotamian) for counting
Polydactyl? Or how did they manage that?
http://www.gregapodaca.com/numerography/files/dozpent_palm_2.jpg
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... :)