It has recently been said -
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> That is what I was saying - 'digits' means both fingers and thumbs
in English. We usually say (incorrectly) that we have five fingers on each
hand. We don't. We have four fingers and one thumb.
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I always think of thumbs as a sub-set of fingers; like, just for for
instance, I think of Serial Ports as a sub-set of Dilwyn; Sheds as a
sub-set of Tony and that Programming Language (the name of which I can't
just now remember) as a subset of Norman.
Of course, there are many other worthies, with soft and hard sub-sets
amongst us, but you get my drift, I'm sure. ;-)
John, a sub-set of Wales
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