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No, but if you wanted to count how many coconuts you had, you would start with 0 (pointing at nothing) and then you would continue by 1,2 etc pointing to each other coconut. This would allow you to use the same counting process to count something, even if there was nothing to count.



OK, so I start counting on my fingers:

thumb -> zero

index -> one

middle -> two

ring -> three

pinkie -> four

See what you gone did. Now I have four fingers, like a Looney Tune.


but you didn't follow directions?

    you would start with 0 (pointing at nothing)


OK, let me try again.

nothing -> zero

thumb -> one

index -> two

middle -> three

ring -> four

pinkie -> five

Hey, this seems like it might work! How many numbers are those? Let me count them.

On my fingers, duh.

zero -> thumb -> one

one -> index -> two

two -> middle -> three

three -> ring -> four

four -> pinkie -> five

five ->nothing -> six

So now I got six fingers! What am I, the illegitimate child of a Hapsburg royal?


sure, continue pretending you dont understand for no purpose at all.


Why the aggressive tone? You responded in my earlier comment so I assumed you were having fun.

Fucking internets...


> Why the aggressive tone?

Because while you might think you were being funny, you came off as fucking annoying. HTH!




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