The iPad also gains some multitouch multitasking gestures, which are pretty interesting, actually: you can use four or five fingers to pinch to the home screen, swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar, and swipe left or right between apps.

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The mark was in the shape of a hand with all five fingers clearly visible, Hayes-Bautista said.

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Five fingers, literally, are a glove for the foot.

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Little did they know, five broken fingers and a concussion came with me off the rugby field as well, but with more training I learned to land differently.

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The very early four-legged land vertebrates, such as Acanthostega and Ichthyostega, that dragged themselves from the muddy waters on to land had five, six, seven, even eight fingers.

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As for seven, I like to think of it as a five plus two bookends on the number the matters most (because of our fingers) because putting them on the edges helps us to scale our ability to order things, yet stay asymetrical.

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