• ShaunaTheDead
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    294 months ago

    You can count up to 1023 in base 2 using your fingers to represent 0s and 1s.

    • @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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      164 months ago

      In theory yes, in practice…fingers don’t like cooperating with the combinations of bent and up that you can get by doing that

      • @LazerFX@sh.itjust.works
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        24 months ago

        I do it regularly… I particularly like 4.

        In all seriousness, I use it when I need to time something - 32 on one hand means one minute (approximately) with two rotations. I started when trying to determine if my daughter was asleep, waiting for a minute after she’d last moved or talked, and I didn’t want a screen or light or noise to wake her (she’s always been hard to get to sleep).

        So - yeah it’s a tiny bit tricky to do some combos, but no more than touch typing.

    • @Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz
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      24 months ago

      I understand this, but I didn’t know how one would count up to 36 the first time around. PhlubbaDubba is using joints in their fingers to get additional objects to increment on. If we only used our fingers, we could only get to 10