Comment on I think the reason we evolved 5 fingers is so we can carry hot serving dishes farther by alternating which one is in contact with the hot thing.

dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

No. That is not at all correct!

To start with, we have 8 fingers. Have you noticed? Count them. 8.
And, they are known as ‘digits’. That’s a clue for us.
And finally, there are 8 binary digits in an IPv4 octet.

Humans evolved with 8 fingers so that we would have 8 digits to do binary math on our knuckles. That’s what I do with mine, anyway. (I’m studying for the CCNA.)

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