Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. To quote from screen's original post:
In reply to:


How many fingers has the alien on each hand? Answer: 8 total, 4 on each hand

It seems to me that the alien has 4 fingers on each hand rather than 6 and 2 or 3 and 5 is an unjustified assumption as is that there is any necessary link between the number of fingers the alien has and the base it uses for counting, and even if there were any link, how do we know that the alien has not had any fingers amputated?

Anyway, Tsuwm has already explained how to count in octal, so what else are we supposed to be solving?


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