"Robert Bonomi" wrote in message
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I presume that he's counting his thumb as a finger, as do most people.

"Q. If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
A. Four. Calling a tail a leg does *not* make it a leg!"

Applies equally to thumbs/fingers.

It would if the thumb were not a finger.

Look it up in the dictionary. The thumb qualifies as a finger. It's a
special finger, to be sure, and is *sometimes* distinguished from the
fingers. But only a Usenet pedant would go around claiming that every
normal human being has only eight fingers.

Pete