When you signal a number to another person using your hands, do you face your palm or tge back of your hand to the ither person?

American, I show the palm.

Yeah a two-finger salute (back of hand facing them) is equivalent to giving the middle finger in the UK.

If I count for myself my palm faces me. I turn it to show someone else, with palm facing them, as if it's a piece of paper with text.

This is a subtle shittyasklemmy disguised as an asklemmy.

In my experience in the US it’s interchangeable. Typically palm out is used to convey more cheerfully or for emphasis, while palm in is more casual or less emphatic.

American/British count palm forward but also learned to count BSL style with the only modification I use my thumb for number 3

If I'm dealing with someone who I can reasonably assume is not American it's palm toward me and thumb out (but not pointing straight up) for one, thumb and index finger for two, and so on. Many American hand gestures are offensive to other cultures and it's not hard to learn to do it this way.

I’m American. Until I was almost 40, that’s where I lived. Count with index first, thumb last. Palm facing the other person.

I moved to Norway al 39. Over time I have transitioned to counting thumb first and showing the back of my hand. No one told me, just trying to assimilate.

I write the number on the inside of my hand, so that’s the side I’ll will show (the other side of the hand wouldn’t make sense, unless I would want to check what I had written).