Originally Posted by Microburst 2000
..And I have a question as a non-native english speaker: The thumb is not a finger???
Ooops, now my face is red. Your mastery of written English is so good that I never, ever suspected it was not your first language.
Yes, one of the many oddities of English is that the thumb is not considered to be a finger. So, a normal configuration individual is said to have four fingers and one thumb, or; it would also be correct (but uncommon) to say that they have five 'digits'.
Michael