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That SQL is ambiguous. It can address the middle finger (assuming a 1-based index), the ring finger (assuming a little-endian (starting to count on the right) zero-based index) or the index finger (big-endian zero-based index).
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Hey! As a goofy research project today, I searched the web and could not find any reference to an obscene finger gesture that is a binary 42, ROTFL. Sticking out the middle finger (the standard western "finger") would seem to be a binary 4, or a 2, depending on how you count.
I won't use your nerd mode tage because they would be redundant. I'm always in nerd mode.
4<sub>2</sub> does not really make sense. Something like 101<sub>2</sub> would work. The subscript 2 is used to indicate that a number is already in base 2. It's not an operator that acts on a base 10 number.
I had to seal that area off, otherwise I'd have to pick on my own post, and knowing myself, pick on my picking on my own post, and then pick on my picking on my picking on my own post, and then ERROR: stack full, reseting.....
The idea is not to be too exact, but to leave a (small) clue for those who know how to count binary on what to do.