A better question would be ratio of fingers to persons, because lost fingers ≠ lost hand, and the ratio would be more sensitive to changes
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because of birth defects and stuff like this, given that we’re all suppose to have two hands, I wonder what the actual ratio of hands to people is.
It must be far less than 2.
sukhmel@programming.dev 1 week ago
And009@lemmynsfw.com 6 days ago
Chances of >2 are null.
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Well theoretically no there is a condition called Polymelia where you can have more than 4 limbs. in reality it will be <2 and >1.8
And009@lemmynsfw.com 6 days ago
Except spiders, squids and octopus I suppose.
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“far” less, like 1.999 or something.