Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
36 represented in chisanbop, where four fingers and a thumb are touching the table and the rest of the digits are raised. The three fingers on the left hand represent 10+10+10 = 30; the thumb and one finger on the right hand represent 5+1=6. Counting from 1 to 20 in Chisanbop. Each finger has a value of one, while the thumb has a value of five.
Finger-counting can serve as a form of manual communication, particularly in marketplace trading – including hand signaling during open outcry in floor trading – and also in hand games, such as morra. Finger-counting is known to go back to ancient Egypt at least, and probably even further back. [Note 1]
This may be done with index fingers and thumbs of two hands, [1] or with the thumb and three fingers of one hand. [3] Manipulations are done by various similar methods. In a common method, the player asks a question of the person holding the fortune teller; this question will be answered by the device. The holder then asks for a number or color.
One then returns to the little finger knuckle (now August) and continues for the remaining months. One variant of this approach differs after reaching the index finger knuckle (July): instead of wrapping around back to the little finger, some people reverse direction and continue from the index finger knuckle (counting it for both July and ...
Here, in the four-finger system, as well as in common English, the first finger refers to the index finger (the finger next to the thumb). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This designation carries over in a musical context when referencing the playing of stringed instruments (such as the guitar), [ 5 ] woodwind instruments (such as flutes, pipes, or piccolos), and ...
1494 illustration of a finger alphabet and counting system originally described by Bede in 710. The Greek alphabet is represented, with three additional letters making a total of 27, by the first three columns of numbers. The first two columns are produced on the left hand, and the next two columns on the right.
One such system is the body-part counting system which make use of further body parts to extend the system beyond the ten fingers. [1] Counting typically begins by touching (and usually bending) the fingers of one hand, moves up the arm to the shoulders and neck, and in some systems, to other parts of the upper body or the head.
Pages in category "Finger-counting" ... Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes This page was last edited on 26 January 2019, at 00:48 (UTC). ...