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Title text: Elsewhere, a species with 20 fingers per hand will believe pretty much anything is true.

Votey

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Earth scientists! We wish to share our wisdom with you! Do you have any questions about the nature of reality.?

How do you determine

P must be less than .03.

Truth?

You mean 05.

.03

Well shit.

Billions

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See this is why dolphins never developed science.

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Discussion

0.083

I'm sure it was an intentional oversight, but 0.05 = (5/10^2) (decimal notation). Any parallel development in a species with two three-fingered hands would be (3/6^2) or 0.0833 (again, in our decimal notation, not heximal / senary). That would just be a bit too obscure to be a funny, though. (Grr... how do I add an overline / vinculum?). 195.78.54.61 10:24, 6 February 2024 (EST)