• MrScottyTay
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    17 hours ago

    24 if you first do it with the knuckle of your thumb and switch to the tip after you’ve done every finger bone

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      16 hours ago

      Twice as many if you do it twice

      Brother I can count to 100 on one hand if I keep switching the counting apparatus, but the point is that there are 12 distinct sections on the fingers.

      Bonus points: this is part of the reason there was once a debate about swapping to base 12 instead of 10