re: Define “five” without using the word “five” or another number

The amount of beers my cousin would get back in highschool if he came to me to buy him a pack.


Or the amount of grams a nickel weighs.

No, that's defining five as a quantity and a specific quantity equal to the number of fingers on a typical hand or number of members on a basketball team.

The cost of a Subway footlong in October

It’s a number.

Fingers on my hand.

Nickel bag

function number(num) {
if(num < 2) {return 0}
return num + number(num - 1);
}

number(3);

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that's defining five as a quantity and a specific quantity equal to the number of fingers on a typical hand

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That’s like defining “pen” as “The thing I put inside this box. I know I put a pen in here, so therefore I can define ‘pen’ as the thing inside this box.”

5 exists even if hands did not, just as “pen” exists even if it’s not inside the box. Define 5 for what it actually is.

the 2nd number past the 3rd number after zero

eta...Tito's influenced...that shite makes me smart

This is the easiest thing in the book. It’s the largest odd number you can count using all fingers and phalange a solitary time.

What do I win? It took my longer to type it than to think of it.