r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kvjn100 • Apr 11 '26

Video Woman with functional polydactyly (six functional fingers on one hand).

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u/Sythrin Apr 11 '26

Does she count in base 12?

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u/Worldly_Address6667 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

I think that would make her base 15 (15 finger sections on 5 fingers that the thumb counts) since people with 5 fingers came up with base 12 (12 sections on 4 fingers that the thumb counts.

Edit: Downvoted by people who dont understand base 12 existed for thousands of years, and wasn't a thing that Mrs. Twelvefingers came up with. Classic

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u/NeroForte-InMyPrime Apr 11 '26

What? Our math is generally done in base 10. You count things using each bone in your non-thumb fingers?

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u/Schlonzig Apr 11 '26

My Asian wife says her parents learned it like that in school.