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try 132
You can even count to 59k using ternary, introducing a third, half-raised, finger position.
11 is extremely hard for me.
Sure , this is neat, but counting single digits on digits is easy for people.
Mentally adding 16 to 8 and 4 is where people will find this more complex, especially if you have easy stuff like 7+5, you have to do the math in your head to move it from 4,2,1+ 4,1 to 8,4.
Try 717, (or just 13 in your right hand)
This reminds me of an engineer ever walking me through a bringup test of a board and telling me to flip some dipswitches so that it added up to some binary number and I just stared at him like can't you just tell me which dips to flip
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
I can count to 21 if I take off my shoes and pants
Big numbers are cool, but you can actually count to 100, not 10, in decimal, by using two hands.
On your right hand:
Pointer = 1
Pointer + Middle = 2
Those + Ring = 3
Those + Pinky = 4
Thumb alone = 5
Thumb + Pointer = 6
Those + Middle = 7
Those + Ring = 8
Those + Pinky = 9
Now hold up your left hand and stick your pointer finger out. Put all right fingers down. That's 10.
So I've shown you how to count to 10 on one hand. The other hand is the tens place, so by having two hand signals that go up to 10, you have two digits and therefore 100. And once you know the trick, it's super easy to read, too. If you're gesturing to someone else, reverse the hands so they can read it left to right.
You will hurt your tendons trying, but you can.
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Beware of the 132.
Why stop at binary? You can do ternary with three positions for each finger: extended, bent, curled.
I can count to a thousand without my hands at all. In fact, I could probably go way higher than that.
Sure, but good luck putting up 15 with that system. Just try it: raise all your fingers except for your pinkie!
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
In binary, I can even count beyond 1,000,000,000 using my 1,010 fingers
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.
That's why it's called digital.
I developed this skill at a young age because I grew up in a nerdy family
It's unfortunately only really useful as a party trick and not super practical
use your fingers' phalanx to count using base 12 instead
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.
I taught my kids to count in binary on their fingers before I taught them base 10.
Having that skill also makes base conversion relatively simple because base 10 is intrinsically understood to be a way of expressing quantity instead of the literal truth about that quantity.
I count mine in base 12. 1-12 on each knuckle segment of my right hand and multiples of twelve on my left. I can get up to 144.
Depending on how well you can control your individual joints, could get base 3 or 4 going.
Binary instead of unary
I just tried, and counting this way on one's fingers is not very useful because it's awkward. Try counting to 32 and tell me if you didn't experience frustration bending your fingers.
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