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Originally Posted by AntonioLao Now that you mentioned it, my question is why do we have exactly five fingers not 4 or 6? Or what can we do better with lesser or more fingers? |
exactly. These are questions I would say are STRUCTURAL mathematics - what aspect of this arrangment of four fingers and one opposable thumb suited the mechanics of evolution. Exactly.
There are those who seem to think we have five fingers because God counts in tens... and that is to my mind disgraceful. I include numberologists in this crazy way of thinking - who add up your date or birth and so on. THere is a lady living near me who wrote a book ("channelled by angels") to say DNA was mutating to a 13 strand structure and we must recalculate all numberology stuff by a new matrix of 13 colours to include the pastel shades of angels. Lovely lady, I liked her a lot, but she was grumpy when I pointed out her calculations needed to use modulo 13, and by sticking with ten as her basis for calculating what letter of the alphabet mapped onto which of thirteen numbers, using symbols 0 to 9 - she eliminated certain fairy colours unfairly. As I say lovely lady, she is out helping orphans who lost their parents in the tsunami, nothing wrong, just lack of logic.
So I seek a better explanation of the structural mathematics of the hand than becuase god or fairies want us to count in tens and could not just send us an email about that.