Comment on historical inaccuracies

chtk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  24 if you first do it with the knuckle I’d your thumb and switch to the tip after you’ve done every finger bone

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  • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Twice as many if you do it twice

    Brother I can count to 100 on one hand if I keep switching the counting apparatus, but the point is that there are 12 distinct sections on the fingers.

    Bonus points: this is part of the reason there was once a debate about swapping to base 12 instead of 10

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• SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Up to 31 in binary, but one may say it isn’t very handy.

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• RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can count up to 242 on one hand if you are good enough

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh my god a mutant and a nerd!

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