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I’m fairly certain I was taught the unary counting system in either kindergarten or 1st grade. And I wasn’t even in an advanced course.
Timmy has 1 rock. Johnny gives Timmy 1 rock. Timmy now has 1 rock. Jenny gives 1 rock to Timmy. Timmy has 1 rock.
0 – one
00 – two
000 – three
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It is an amazing way to show how paranoid people are over "dogwhistles." Witches are everywhere!
People want to have something to fear or wave pitchforks at. It's simple mob psychology, and it's scary.
https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2021/08/08...
Every time I've heard some variation of this, the example is always three. I'm more interested in four. Does the pattern follow through? Because I physically can't hold up 3 fingers and my thumb without the pinky going up to, when I do 3, my thumb is holding my pinky down.
I think French people would do 4 with just the pinkie down. At least this specific French person does :). In my case that means the ring finger is not perfectly up, but still enough that it's clear it's raised.
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I did index+middle for 2. They would do thumb+index for 2, and thumb+index+middle for 3. They didn't do index+middle for anything other than maybe "peace sign". So from a distance, my "2" would look like "3" to them. It was a rural area in Germany, in the late 80's, early 90's.
Index + middle in an upward movement would probably be taken as something other than peace
I actually use it every now and then, for example ordering 2 beers at a bar.
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People want to have something to fear or wave pitchforks at. It's simple mob psychology, and it's scary.
Perhaps you'd care to explain why this guy has it emblazoned on his helmet. As I have pointed out many times, simply ignoring people whose ideas you find disagreeable doesn't necessarily make them go away. https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2021/08/08...
The symbol became irresistible to that guy after watching liberals lose their minds at it. If it hadn't bothered the libs, it would have no use to him.
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Perhaps you'd care to explain why this guy has it emblazoned on his helmet. As I have pointed out many times, simply ignoring people whose ideas you find disagreeable doesn't necessarily make them go away. https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2021/08/08...
Because we're all idiots who got taken in on this by 4chan. The symbol became irresistible to that guy after watching liberals lose their minds at it. If it hadn't bothered the libs, it would have no use to him.
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> invention of 4chan They set out to transform a symbol, and they succeeded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture#White_power_symbol If you think it isn't real because it was made up, Vonnegut's Mother Night has you covered: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
I think you're seeing a slightly different narrative. 4chan decided to make people upset about the hand sign, some major news networks obediently expressed outrage, and a whole lot of people who actively dislike said news channels discovered a whole new way to generate headlines.
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Timmy has 1 rock. Johnny gives Timmy 1 rock. Timmy now has 1 rock. Jenny gives 1 rock to Timmy. Timmy has 1 rock.
– zero 0 – one 00 – two 000 – three
The correct way is to count in binary, and easily reach 1023 without needing a third hand [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_binary
And with two’s complement, we can even have negative numbers!
There's a distinction to be made between counting on one's fingers and communicating a number with one's fingers. You can easily communicate numbers 1 through 10 to just about anyone around the globe by holding up the corresponding number of fingers. But when it comes to 11 and up, you're generally not going to be able to communicate those numbers in a universally recognizable way. (Although "flashing" one's hands to…
For the numbers 6-10 China have hand gestures where number of fingers held up does not correspond to the number.
I was confused by this when I wanted to buy something and the lady crossed her two index fingers.
I took it to mean that the item was not for sale (out of stock), but later learned that this is the hand gesture for the number ten.
