0 ✊
1 👍
2 ☝️
3 👆
4 🖕
Hey, fourck you too, man.
Well, 132 you!
2
guys, or I’ll0
you both!1
?Why did 2 break up with zero?
Some 1 got between them!
6 ✌️
17 🤙
18 🤘
19 🤟
28 👌
31 ✋
1 👆
2 👆
3 👆
4 🖕
5 🖕
6 🖕
If you count in binary you can get to 31 on one hand, and 2,047 on two hands
I’m not flipping you off, i just counted to 4
19 is the rock and roll symbol
22 is the shocker
Assuming you use your thumb as the first bit
I taught my kids how to do it and for a while they’d tell each other to binary four off
My seven year old did something similar. At least once a day I’d hear ‘Dad, Dad, I’m counting to four!’ and see the little shit flipping me off and laughing hysterically :D
It really turns into Naruto style ninjitsu.
One hand would be 2**5 = 32 (0 to 31) and two would be 2**10 = 1024 (0 to 1023).
And if you use 3 states per finger (down, half raised and raised), you can have 3**10 = 59049 (0 to 59048).
I don’t count to 1024 over often (literally never) so I don’t feel the need to go to trinary.
nah, you can have 16+8+4+2+1 = 31 on one hand, and 1024+512+256+128+64+32+16+8+4+2+1=2047 on two hands.
counting != indexing
^^
Nah. 1,2,4,8,16… or 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, depending on how you look at it.
You use more than one finger at once.
I don’t know many people who count like 👍☝️🖕, so you kinda already do. You’re just allowing more combinations
Good point.
Someone is confusing indices and cardinality.
Base 5 is based
The French used to count in base 20 (so that means both hands and both feet), which is why they read 97 as quatre-vingt-dix-sept, ie
4*20+10+7
.One of the reasons why I hate learning French so much.
Don’t you mean base 10?
Also, clearly seximal is the best
coworker taught me this and it blew my mind. I had previously jokingly used base 2 with my hands, but something like 01001 10010 would be difficult to handle.
Base 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert
It gets easier with practice
If you count finger joints and tips, using your thumb – you can count in hex (base16) on each hand.
🤯 wow, that’s a neat idea! That might come in handy some time 🤔
“Please count to 10.”
“… um, I’ve run out of fingers.”
You only need two fingers for that though
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!
Honestly, I count using the four fingers for 1-4, close the fingers and extend thumb for five, then extend each finger again for 6-9.
The right hand counts tens and works the same way. Can count to 100, and it’s pretty intuitive. It’s like if positional notation was discovered way earlier.
0 1 10 11 100
0; 1; 2; 4; 8
I’ve watched Inglorious Basterds I’m not falling for that trick
0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc.
I literally did this the other day… to be fair, it was a list starting with the number zero.