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[โ€“] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

0 โœŠ

1 ๐Ÿ‘

2 โ˜๏ธ

3 ๐Ÿ‘†

4 ๐Ÿ–•

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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Why did 2 break up with zero?

Some 1 got between them!

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

6 โœŒ๏ธ

17 ๐Ÿค™

18 ๐Ÿค˜

19 ๐ŸคŸ

28 ๐Ÿ‘Œ

31 โœ‹

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

1 ๐Ÿ‘†

2 ๐Ÿ‘†

3 ๐Ÿ‘†

4 ๐Ÿ–•

5 ๐Ÿ–•

6 ๐Ÿ–•

[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

It really turns into Naruto style ninjitsu.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

You use more than one finger at once.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Good point.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Someone is confusing indices and cardinality.

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

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

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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It gets easier with practice

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

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

[โ€“] 4L3moNemo 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

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

"Please count to 10."

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You only need two fingers for that though

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

0; 1; 2; 4; 8

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

0 1 10 11 100

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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

LUN is life.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

AKschually, thumbs aren't fingers.