 In the system mainly used in Continental Europe, the thumb represents 1, the thumb plus the index finger represents 2, and so on, until the thumb plus the index, middle, ring, and little fingers represents 5.This continues on to the other hand, where the entire one hand plus the thumb of the other hand means 6, and so on.In the system mainly used in the Americas and the United Kingdom, the index finger represents 1; the index and middle fingers represents 2; the index, middle and ring fingers represents 3; the index, middle, ring, and little fingers represents 4; and the four fingers plus the thumb represents 5.