Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
> > Ah ... I was trying to connect it too the numbers of fingers _and_ toes.
> >
> > (I arrived at 1024 as 4^5 - ie the number of sets to the number of members
> of
> > each set.)
>
> Huh, I don't see how that is relevant. 5^4 = 625 would seem to be more
> meaningful than 4^5. What physical set of combinations does 4^5 represent?
Did I ever say it does represent one? It's simply that the Gods' equivalent of
writing x^y down is to create a species with x limbs with y appendages each.
> Anyway, if you include toes, you can count all the way up to a million. :)
> More, actually, to 2^20 = 1,048,576. :)
You've got agile toes!
Andreas