...guests....

[Booklover]

I don't hate zero. It's possibly the most useful digit!

[Kade Rivok]

Nah, that'd be the thumb.

[Booklover]

We count in base ten because we have ten fingers (including thumbs). That's why digits mean fingers as well as single numbers. But, as the ten digits are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, then that means that if you labelled them from left to right (or right to left, I suppose), with the palms facing you, 0 would be the thumb.

[Kade Rivok]

I think most would label the ten digits as 1-10, not 0-9.  Especially since the concept of "0" didn't used to exist 

Either way, thumbs are cool.

[Booklover]

10 is not a digit! It's made up of two digits: 1 and 0.

True. The logic was that 'nothing' isn't really a number, as such. Many cultures just used a gap as a place holder, or their system (such as for the Romans) meant they didn't have individual digits. However, if you had 25, it could mean 25, 205, 250, 2005, and so on. Sometimes the menacing could be guessed from context, but not always, so the Babylonians invented zero as a placeholder. The other digits aren't as useful, because you could still have a number system without one of them, it would just be base nine instead of base ten.

[Verdauga]

Guys, look at what going on! We're distracted again! This is exactly what the guests want!

[Kade Rivok]

What you want, you mean.

[Verdauga]

Why would this be what I want? This will allow the guests to take over! If I wanted it why would I tell you this!?!?!

[Kade Rivok]

A cunning ploy, to be sure.

[Verdauga]

<_<
>_>
*Locks Kade in Kotir's dungeons.*

[Kade Rivok]

*Dodges.*

[Verdauga]

It wasn't an attack; you can't dodge a non-attack.

[Kade Rivok]

*Dodges.*

[Sebias of Redwall]

Guys, look at what going on! We're distracted again! This is exactly what the guests want!

*Gasps* I am so ashamed... of ya'll for falling for such a trick. 

[Kade Rivok]

*Dodges the guest's mental attack that made people forget about this thread.*