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Re:Writing a game from first principles in 65c02 – Part One by cjohansson on Sunday May 30, 2021 @04:21AM (#27331575)
"We use the digits 0 to 9 to represent 10 unique values, which not uncoincidentally matches the number of fingers on our hands."

I disagree with this statement, humans use fingers on one hand to represent 0-5 (6 distinct values) and fingers on two hands to represent 0-10 (11 distinct values)

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Re:Writing a game from first principles in 65c02 – Part One by choeger on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:09AM (#27331780)
IIRC the "0" as a natural number was "invented" much later than the other natural numbers. So the argument still holds, I think.
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