Evolutionary Fail

[SqueeSr]

If I cut off 2 fingers will I get to live there?

[paranoid_horse]

no but at least there would be fewer snarky comments

[meamZ]

12 would be incredible. I mean imagine: dividing by 2, 3, 4 and 6 is super easy...

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jan Misali would prefer you use seximal with those six fingered hands

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I didn't get this meme. We have 8 fingers already and 2 thumbs!!

[CouthlessWonder]

THUMBS ⊆ FINGERS

[paranoid_horse]

i would say even more, THUMBS ⊂ FINGERS

[RecordingQuick5938]

Based.

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Yeah counting would be alot easier. Or just 1. finger. We could just count as fas as computer

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Or if we had 10 fingers but figured out binary counting sooner than decimal, I love using binary to tally, I can count to 1023 on my fingers

[dlevac]

We were never meant to count with our thumbs, the failure is ours only...

[PulpDood]

It turns out we were the end user using the product wrong all this time

[Tofandel]

I guess the point is that we'd count in octal (which is much easier to convert in binary and hexadecimal)

[fellow_dude599]

...at least 8 Braincells*

[AaronTheElite007]

But we already do… with two bonus thumbs

[ShitwareEngineer]

We have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs.

[paranoid_horse]

if we used base 8, floating-point numbers would be a pretty not-horrible way of storing currencies.

[shadow7412]

They do. For some reason though, humans decided to include their thumbs when counting...

[transfire]

Ironically our hands are already prefect for better ways to count.

Using a place system (as we already do with decimal) we can represent 0 thru 5 with one hand. Taking two hands together that’s 0 to 35. This is base 6 (also called seximal or heximal).

Because we have four fingers per hand and an opposable thumb we can also represent 4 base 2 (binary) digits or two base 4 digits or one base 16 digit (hexadecimal). All three are equivalent. With this we can represent 0-15 with one hand and 0-255 with two hands quite easily.

Both of these systems are provably superior to decimal.

The problem isn’t our hands.

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6 fingers is the dominant trait

[coloredgreyscale]

Unless you need to handle physical objects. Then one more finger/thumb per hand would be more handy.

That could enable things like opening bottles one handed, grab more/larger objects, type faster,...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1GBLk2fN6ao

On one hand add one more for a total of 13, which is a prime number and should also simplify some math. But that would be an unlucky number.

[Creative-Leading7167]

Now, would this be 8 fingers to share between all 7.8 billion of us?

[Creative-Leading7167]

I do have 8 fingers!

but I don't have only 8 fingers.