FYI a normal human can count to 31 on one hand using binary.
and China has well established hand gesture for 0-9 on one hand.
and even if you don’t know that, it’s quite easy to count to 12 using finger segments.
I have a well-established hand gesture for 1!
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FYI anyone counting in binary on their hand(s) is decidedly not a normal human.
Now I had to try it out and I’m very proud of how each finger played along
Use ternary. Up, down, half bent. I think that gets you to 242
Akshully, they would be counting to 11,111. That’s nearly 100,000!
Wait… what
Rather than assigning each finger the same value of 1, assign them values of 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16. Then there’s some combination of fingers that can represent any value from
0to1+2+4+8+16=31. It’s like using digits to count instead of tally marks.I work with binary every day or a notation of it, don’t worry
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Sumerians, 4-5000ya counted to 12 on one hand. 4 fingers with 3 sections each with the thumb as a pointer. Then the other hand counted off 5x12 which gave us yhe hexadecimal system of counting which is still in use today.
I can count to 31 in one hand in binary. It’s not a super useful skill, but it’s won me a bar bet more than once.
I want to go to the kinds of bars where counting in binary wins bets. Most of the time it’s things like “open a beer bottle with your eye socket”.
The trick is to be the one making the bets and to word them in a way that makes the losing side sound like the winning side (or one that generates enough curiosity about how you can actually do it that people accept the bet knowing you probably have a trick).
If you add things like arm position and rotation, you can add even more bits. Using 4 arm positions and 2 rotations, you can get a full byte of data with one hand.
Sexagesimal, hexadecimal is base 16. You could say that simply improving on mathematics lead to the hexadecimal system eventually but they did not create the hexadecimal system.
not great, not terrible.
In Taiwan, we can count to 10 on one hand.
My favorite insult of all time involves telling someone to go count their dick
I can’t verify anything but it seems to me if you want to know everything you could possibly know about the disaster, “That Chernobyl guy” is the place to go.
Fun fact you can count to 27 if you cut your hand and count the bones.
Protip: you can count to one by counting your dick, but some people will count zero instead.
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I can count entirely on one hand with ASL. 1-10 are static hand positions
I can and do count to 10 on one hand. I just use ASL numbers
I can count to twelve on one hand like the Babylonians
12 distinctions on one hand and 4 on the other doesn’t seem too smart to me… I’m with the binary crowd.
I can count to 31 using binary numbers!
You can count to 242 using ternary numbers if you give each digit three states instead of two.
I can go to 31. In binary.
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