• @[email protected]
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    1910 months ago

    Jokes on you, I use my fingers as bits for a total of 1024 numbers (0-1023). Or I can sacrifice 1 finger time be a sign bit and count negative numbers too.

    • thor12022
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      610 months ago

      Jokes on you, fingers are tri-state (fully extended, fully closed, bent at middle knuckle) not binary, so I can count to 59049.

      Someone with better finger control should be able to treat them as quad-state, granting the ability to count to 1048576 by bending just the outer knuckle.

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      I like this idea in theory, but some combinations of fingers are very awkward to extend without the others, and one particular combination is very rude.

      • nfh
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        510 months ago

        Maybe that’s just because 132 is a rude number.

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      I’ve tried this a few times and my fingers always get really Fucking confused after about four bits.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      I can’t imagine a scenario when you need to be able to do BOTH positive and negative numbers at the same time 😂