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submitted 3 weeks ago by NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would you count with only 4 fingers when the hand has 5?

[–] belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think it’s because in the UK they start counting (regularly) with the index finger, so the regular binary two would look unnatural in context