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by toxik 1817 days ago
I feel like it's important whether you're tallying things, or presenting a quantity by hand gestures, for example to a bartender. Then 1 is a single index finger raised, with the thumb and other fingers pinched together. 2 the same, but also long finger. For 3, I would use the ring finger, and similarly for 4, using the pinky.

However, if I was tallying, I'd do thumb, index, long, ring, pinky. I have a Chinese colleague, and he always goes pinky, ring, long, thumb.