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Welcome, nounish!
Gosh, hope we don't verb you! (Ref. past thread!)
I do believe I know the answer to your puzzle, but mindful of a long-ago chastisement, I won't post my guess. Yet.
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>>I was wondering why questions often start with a "w".<<
Well, questions starts with a "q", ack-shu-al-ly! Ee-yow!
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>Well, questions starts with a "q", ack-shu-al-ly! Ee-yow<
lol
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good one, Jackie :-)
rut-roh, screen... you're acronymizing. *L*
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>you're acronymizing
aaarrrrgggh! (don't mind me, just a bit of arghizing 8)
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>>arghizing<< Tsuwm, does that mean you wear argyle socks?? 
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>>Presumably four per hand is a minimum<<
That's a long enough wait. The answer please?
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Who said that aliens have the same number of fingers on each hand?
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Bingley, it does not matter! Just the sum of the number of fingers is important here.
Let me add a quotation (from AWAD-archives) about ...counting in base 20
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
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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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