A very stupid question, but… if we have ten fingers, shouldn’t we be counting in base 11? One can express 0–9 *and* 10 with their fingers.
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(I arrived at this line of thinking after realizing Morse code only needs one finger, but can be roughly considered a version of binary.)
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Answer: “What we see historically is counting on one's fingers – by fives or by tens – not counting in base 10.”https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/461249/why-dont-we-use-base-6-or-11 …
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Or, just a version of the usual generalized answer, “people are not machines, Marcin.”
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