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[โ€“] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

0 โœŠ

1 ๐Ÿ‘

2 โ˜๏ธ

3 ๐Ÿ‘†

4 ๐Ÿ–•

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

2 guys, or I'll 0 you both! 1?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Why did 2 break up with zero?

Some 1 got between them!

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

6 โœŒ๏ธ

17 ๐Ÿค™

18 ๐Ÿค˜

19 ๐ŸคŸ

28 ๐Ÿ‘Œ

31 โœ‹

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

1 ๐Ÿ‘†

2 ๐Ÿ‘†

3 ๐Ÿ‘†

4 ๐Ÿ–•

5 ๐Ÿ–•

6 ๐Ÿ–•

[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If you count in binary you can get to 31 on one hand, and 2,047 on two hands

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I taught my kids how to do it and for a while they'd tell each other to binary four off

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It really turns into Naruto style ninjitsu.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I don't count to 1024 over often (literally never) so I don't feel the need to go to trinary.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Nah. 1,2,4,8,16... or 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, depending on how you look at it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You use more than one finger at once.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know many people who count like ๐Ÿ‘โ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ–•, so you kinda already do. You're just allowing more combinations

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Good point.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Someone is confusing indices and cardinality.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

One of the reasons why I hate learning French so much.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Base 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It gets easier with practice

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Binary is better than seximal, unless you rig the tests.

[โ€“] 4L3moNemo 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you count finger joints and tips, using your thumb โ€“ you can count in hex (base16) on each hand.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

๐Ÿคฏ wow, that's a neat idea! That might come in handy some time ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Please count to 10."

"... um, I've run out of fingers."

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You only need two fingers for that though

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

0; 1; 2; 4; 8

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I've watched Inglorious Basterds I'm not falling for that trick

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

0 1 10 11 100

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Haaaaaang on is that why we start on 0...

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No. We count start at zero because the array already starts with an element of a specific size. Starting at 1 would always skip that initial element.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You could have "empty arrays" in a language if you wanted. The real reason is that you start with an offset of zero as you read an array from memory at hardware level, and so this way address is just "start address + element size * element number".

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No, we start counting at one. We start indexing at zero.

An array with one element has an element count of 1, and that element would be at index 0.

[โ€“] LaggyKar 3 points 11 months ago

This is how we end up with off-by-one errors

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Because if you convert it back to binary, you have 0x0000 and that is one extra bit you can use instead of limiting your available values.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I literally did this the other day... to be fair, it was a list starting with the number zero.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

LUN is life.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Fun fact: when learning some instruments (e.g. bowed instruments) you also number the fingers starting from your index (because you don't play with the thumb)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

AKschually, thumbs aren't fingers.