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[-] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 137 points 11 months ago

Ackchyually humans have 10 fingers, indexed 0 to 9

[-] desentizised@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

yea imagine if 0 was worth 1 all of a sudden

[-] Nariom@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago
[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

I guess we're counting the thumb fingers now. ๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 11 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.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 11 months ago

I mean there are 10 fingers, but numbered 0-9.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 45 points 11 months ago

Starting the off-by-1 errors at an early age ๐Ÿ˜Œ

[-] idefix@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Is that why he's always pushing the boundaries to test my limits?

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 7 points 11 months ago
// see if the runtime notices
limit := limits[len(limits)]
[-] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

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

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 18 points 11 months ago

Counting starts at one, indexing starts at zero.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 11 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.

[-] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Programming joke aside, that is a categorically incorrect way to teach someone how to count.

In respect to the English language asking someone at the bar to pour you zero beers should not yield any passing of drinks.

So for your kins sake, I hope you did not do that.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

It is the way!

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 23 points 11 months ago

I mean, not everyone has 10 fingers, so the average is slightly less than 10. Coerce to an integer and you get 9.

[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But some people have more than 5 fingers per hand (Polydactyly, afaik the most per hand was 8) so it balances out. /s

[-] SilverCode@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah but then Pterodactyls bring that number back down again

[-] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago
[-] beeb@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

With 4 fingers tho

[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

On average, a person contains slightly more than one skeleton.

On average, a person has slightly less than two legs.

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

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

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 12 points 11 months ago

It's just A finger, really

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I mean all vertebrates are A digit creatures in their front set of limbs.

[-] Trent@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

Have you had your son tested? He may be an AI.

[-] fishbone@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Definitely not an AI. An AI would say humans have 9 fingers on each hand, for a total of 47 fingers.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

First things first: have you counted his fingers, before moving on to anything else?

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 12 points 11 months ago

The index was so out of bounds it fell from his hand

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 11 months ago

Eight fingers and two thumbs for ten digits.

[-] 342345@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

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 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Me casually using base-12 (Mesopotamian) for counting

[-] 342345@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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... :)

[-] lilly@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago
[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

That too yes

[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

So just for clarification, when was your son born?

[-] MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 9 points 11 months ago

January 1st, 1970

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

not according to the simpsons

[-] brettvitaz@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago
[-] Why9@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Humans have 10 thumbs though...

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