[sumo] Sumo topics (from smaller to bigger thumbs)

[Joshua Maciel]

We'd just count in base 8.

"Base 8 is like base 10, really, if you're missing two fingers."
- Tom Lehrer

On 9/28/07, Joe Petrow <joepetrow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The more general rule of thumb for Makunouchi is that if you subtract
> the number of losses from wins of a rikishi, this is how far they will
> move on the banzuke.  So a 9-6 rikishi will move up 3 places, a 5-10
> rikishi will move down 5 places, and so on.
>
> I'm not sure what we would do if we ever had a rikishi who had no thumbs.
>
>   - Peterao
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