Counting Fingers
June 16, 2020
A little girl counts on her fingers in a curious way. She counts 1 on her thumb, 2 on her index finger, 3 on her middle finger, 4 on her ring finger, and 5 on her pinkie finger, then works back, counting 6 on her ring finger, 7 on her middle finger, 8 on her index finger, and 9 on her thumb, when she again turns around and counts 10 on her index finger, 11 on her middle finger, and so on.
Your task is to write a program that determines which finger the little girl will be on when she reaches a thousand. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
Programming Praxis 