Comment on CompSci freshmen can relate

huppakee@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• BandanaBug@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It says to guess for numbers higher than 10. It’s a tool!

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  uh, i can count to a billion on my fingers.

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  • Jayjader@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Powers of two per knuckle? I’m curious what the method is.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      nah just sign language

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    • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not sure how I would keep track of power of two with my fingers but base 6 or, my current favorite, base 13 counting is easy enough to keep track.

      In principle you use hands as digits, one hand representing ones the other “tens”. With base 6 you count with fingers normally up to 5 and then 6 is represented on another hand. This let’s you count to 35.

      Base 13 works by counting bones in your digits using your thumb. Like touching finger segment and that representing a number. So one hand can count up to 12 and then 13 is marked in the same manner on the other hand. This allows to count up to 168 (13 * 13 - 1).

      Utilizing all fingers in a binary manner could give 30 bit number (15 finger bones on each hand), but I have no idea how to then keep track of the number using your hands.

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      • HeurtisticAlgorithm9@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Powers of 2 is just counting in binary, finger up is a 1 and down is a 0 so highest you can count all the numbers up to and including is 1111111111 in binary or 1023 base 10

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      • AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m going to say something controversial. You could change your system to base 10, by simply stopping after 9 and using the other hand as the “tens”.

        This could be easier to see at a glance what number you are holding, it should become the industry standard

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  • EffortlessEffluvium@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, that’s because you’re AI-generated. Beep beep boop.

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    • huppakee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ai can generate hands with a billion fingers, but it can’t count so i guess they’re not likely ai after all.

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