[CW] 3RD FINGER

[George Maurer]

If you are using American Sign Language (ASL) then ONE is the Index finger 
held up alone, with the other digits curled down, TWO is the Index and Middle 
finger together, THREE is the Index, Middle and Thumb together, FOUR is the 
Index, Middle, Ring and Little finger together and FIVE is all five digits held 
up together.

SIX is the the Thumb and Little finger held together at the tips and extending 
outward, with the other fingers held up, SEVEN is the Thumb and Ring finger 
held together at the tips and extending outward, with the other fingers held 
up and so on. 

Ask me about counting to 16 on one hand in base two.
Cheers,
de k6ite

"Showing the the Little Finger is called the Feather of the Bird, because they  
are not worth the whole Bird"

On 20 Aug Donald Chester wrote:

> >Most learned counting with the index finger as "one", the second finger as
> >"two", etc.
> >
> >Perhaps the oddity of counting the thumb as separate comes about from the
> >need to unfold it last, and say "five".
> 
> Did I miss something in life?  I have always counted strarting with the 
> thumb an "one" and the little finger (all 5 fingers held up) as 5.