cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53581443
YSK You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10
With just one hand, you can count to 31, and with both hands you can reach a whopping 1,023. This is because the placement of the held up fingers matters, rather than the amount.
It can be very useful in everyday use, being able to count to huge numbers when you don’t have your phone or pen and paper nearby.
It can be very useful to know how to count to 4 this way, especially as a signal to other drivers regarding your level of displeasure
You can rate their driving on a 0-10 scale using this handy system
We can go further, you can rate them from 0x00 to 0x1F
Don’t you mean from 0x00 to 0x0A?
No, you have five fingers
132 also feels like a good signal number.
I can count to 21 if I take off my shoes and pants
Though there’s a bit of a delay counting to and back from 21.
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I can count to a thousand without my hands at all. In fact, I could probably go way higher than that.
Beware of the 132.
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Why stop at binary? You can do ternary with three positions for each finger: extended, bent, curled.
In binary, I can even count beyond 1,000,000,000 using my 1,010 fingers
I can count to 22 if I take off my socks and my top
Sure, but good luck putting up 15 with that system. Just try it: raise all your fingers except for your pinkie!
I don’t understand. Can you not do this? Please don’t tell me this is my superpower…
It’s your super power! My pinkie finger and ring finger are linked. I can’t close my pinkie all the way while keeping the ring finger straight.
It’s not like it needs to be perfect in form.
Your middle finger and ring finger are also linked. Keeping only the ring finger straight is more difficult than curling only your pinkie.
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I got a nice and easy method to represent 25 numbers on one hand. You have 12 segments of the non-thumb fingers and you can hold your finger on the front or side as you go through them. Closed fist represents a zero or 25. Use two hands multiplicative to get to 600.
I don’t really see how that is better than the count to 1035 that you get from binary though.
You just have to add two numbers. With the big number hand you can count hundreds by using the closest segments first, then medium then distant and so on. Hardest additions will make you carry the one once for a case like 19+175 which is easy enough. Also, going from 37 to 38 in binary with fingers you have to close 4 fingers and open one while counting segments you at most move your thumb to the next segments on both hands.
Binary still works fine and is better depending on the specific case but in my opinion counting segments is usually more convenient and base 10 friendly.
I learned about this because of Masahiro Sakurai, I think it was in a Nintendo Direct, but damn he did it so fluidly it was crazy, looked like he was doing Naruto magic
Hence the prayer beads were made obsolete.
In decimal I can show a 1’111’111’111 with fingers. A billion is bigger than a thousand.
But you can’t count until more than 10 in unary. That’s what’s being compared here.
use your fingers’ phalanx to count using base 12 instead
