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Old Fri Sep 12, 2014, 06:04am
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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. View Post
The reason that FIBA uses the thumb-index-middle signal is because that is the only three finger combination that does not have a negative connotation in any society on Earth.
No. It's because the thumb-index-middle is based on the metric system.
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