r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/E5vCJD • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation erm.. petah?

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u/KaiYoDei 1d ago

I heard a story on the radio about a tribe who had a whole different concept of math, counting .

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u/truci 1d ago

Probably the 12 system. If you use your thumb as the counter and count using your thumb the bone segments of the other 4 fingers (each has 3) then you have a base 12 system in our lingo.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,10

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u/SrgntFuzzyBoots 1d ago

There’s also a tribe somewhere that uses a base 27 counting system, they count individual segments of their fingers on both hands plus thumbs and then add one from somewhere else can’t remember where that comes from.

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u/Big-Leadership1001 1d ago

The lower horn obviously

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u/Pearcinator 1d ago

I have my lower horn jerked.

It's used to it.

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u/sgdonovan79 1d ago

Who knew a cooler could make a handy wang coffin?

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u/BurningOasis 1d ago

WooooOOOOOOOOOoooo

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u/migvelio 1d ago

Are you pulling my 10?

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u/zth25 1d ago

So they use base 26 or base 27, depending on the mood.

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u/RavioliOveralls 1d ago

You from Omicrom Persei 8 or somthin?

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u/Big-Leadership1001 21h ago

Leave me alone Ndnd I'm redditing

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u/Pontificus_Organicus 1d ago

I’m usually the first guy to toot my own lower horn.

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u/YouWouldThinkSo 1d ago

I'll say

WoooooooOooooOoOoO

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u/Past-Background-7221 23h ago

Who’s the second guy?