Phew!

Fluffs... could you post the pic or link for me please?

Best to keep the spare one for the real diehards.

The way I see it it's this:
5 fingers            =   5
each has 5 fingers   = 25
each has 5 fingers   =125
makes 155.

OK. Linky problem. Part III. Revenge of the Linky.

I'm now going to post a like here from the Bar in the Sinking Ship not pressing the space bar after I leave this line

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plus the original 5 = 160

Unless it is a fractal mandlebrot type of situation where the fingers and hands go on into infinity outside of what is visible.  Which is an endless number, isn't it?

perfection

The original 5 finger have 5 fingers each, makes 30, the 25 finger have five fingers each, makes 125, equals 155.  

Ooops... wrong link to wrong place!  Please pretend you didn't see that.  

Thanks Fluffs...  

Cologne... Each finger has 5 fingers... so that's 5 original ones + 25 = 30. Each of the 25 has 25 fingers so that's 25 x 25... erm... I think... but it's more than you think ain't it?!

Well, Iv'e counted them about 100 times and unless I have a blind spot, there's 155 there. AND, I'm sober tonight.

You see! That's rubbish isn't it?! When I did try and do this on my own I came up with 155 too cologne!

 

I clearly dealt with this part of the discussion last night Chris... keep up!

Are we talking visible fingers, or an infinite problem?

5+(5x5)+(5x5x5)+(5x5x5x5)= the visible number, but, as Captain Impressive says, this could go on for ever!

Sorry I will go back and re read.  I was dealing with some other issue concerning linking at the time. 

Did I use the ninja right?  I am emoticon clueless

Yes, that is true, as far as it goes, but there is another set on top of the 125.
So each of the 125 fingers leads to another 5 fingers
1st level = 5 fingers
2nd level = 25 fingers
3rd level = 125 fingers
4th level (very tiny) = 625

5+25+125+625 = 780

I don't get were you see all these fingers Bizzie, please explain it before I hit my head against the wall.

Fluffy, I can't see anymore fingers, but if they're there (and I trust you that they are), then 780 is correct. Maybe I need better glasses then.

OK.. I was bluffing... of course! And excellent use of emoticons...  

Who on earth was keeping you busy when all you wanted to do was math?!

You need to get the magnifying-glass out, Cologne (or a higher-res picture).


Each of the 125 fingers you referred to earlier (i.e. the 3rd layer) has another hand (with 5 fingers) on the end of it - a 4th layer.
However as others have said: this may be a fractal picture, and if the resolution was better, there might turn out to be a 5th layer, and even more - infinitely more...

((5to the power n) + (5 to the pwer (n+1)) + (5 to the power (n+2))) to infinity

Is it possible there is some sort of consensus about this now? 780? Yes?

I find a ninja pretty much covers everything!

Clearly not.  

At what point do I shrug my shoulders and realise there are things of which I know not, but they are the terrors of the world?

I'm tending towards infinity now.

Visible fingers, yes!

Chris and Eugene clearly opened a whole new can of worms now...

I see the first three layers quite clearly, but I also see each third layer of figers seem to end in little pads (like ET, or some beetles) on closer examination those 'little pads' turn out to be more hands and fingers.

Depending on ones reading glasses perscription...

You'd rather not know the fingers I'm sticking up now

  If this keeps up no-one will have any fekkin fingers left to count    

E= Pye r2+ ) dab of whiskey*&^ x ( the square on the hypotenuse = the sum of the squares on the other 2 sides)  x3.142 = answer.  ( Stay off the fekkin booze in future Pam )

Truth!

Oh gawd - sorry. You have my immediate and humble apologies...

Time to clear your head folks

To late! TO INFINITY....AND BEYOND!!!!

Brilliant real.   I didn't even need my glasses.

Agreed Fluff!  No apologies here!    why are there 2 ninja emoticons?

No problem... because you lean towards my original thesis, based on no maths knowledge at all... that no-one knows and are they fingers at all if they are pictures of fingers!