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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]
The first symbols that are formed by children are the circle, the upright cross, the diagonal cross, the rectangle, and other common forms. When the child is 3 years old, they begin to form face shapes and by age 4, humans. At 4 to 5 years old, the child draws a human form with arms and legs, and eventually the child adds a trunk and clothes. [5]
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.
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Luca Pacioli modified the finger alphabet to the form shown above, where the handshapes for 1 and 10 on the left hand correspond to the 100s and 1000s on the right. [ 17 ] Beginning with R. A. S. Macalister in 1938, [ 18 ] several writers have speculated that the 5th century Irish Ogham script, with its quinary alphabet system, was derived from ...
In a two-player game, the position becomes 1101, which becomes an easy forced win, so it is best played with more than 2 people. Self-adding: As their turn, players can add 1 finger to any living hand, or transfer multiple fingers to a dead hand. This enables self-destruction (by adding 1 to a living hand with 4 fingers) and resurrection.
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Older finger counting methods used the four fingers and the three bones in each finger to count to twelve. [3] Other hand-gesture systems are also in use, for example the Chinese system by which one can count to 10 using only gestures of one hand. With finger binary it is possible to keep a finger count up to 1023 = 2 10 − 1.