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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  FYI anyone counting in binary on their hand(s) is decidedly not a normal human.

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  • Shitbrains@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now I had to try it out and I’m very proud of how each finger played along

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  and China has well established hand gesture for 0-9 on one hand.

  and even if you don’t know that, it’s quite easy to count to 12 using finger segments.

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  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have a well-established hand gesture for 1!

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You should see my binary hand gesture for 4!

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      • Shitbrains@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I chuckled at 4 (my favorite number!) when I just tried out counting to 31

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    • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Impressive! In binary with one Hand you cant even count to 5!

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      • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        5! = 120

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    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      🖕?

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    China? The 0 to 9 single handed gestures are used for a lot outside of that. Like divers use that, all kinds of trades, and the military.

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ?

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_number_gestures

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      • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ah, I guess that’s one specific method. Several have existed across many cultures and professions.

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger-counting?wprov=sfla1

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Use ternary. Up, down, half bent. I think that gets you to 242

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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Use decimal but with 10 different bend angles per finger.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Or 14 if you use knuckles in Arabic

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• mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Akshully, they would be counting to 11,111. That’s nearly 100,000!

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• diablicja@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Define normal

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A normal person can do it. Only abnormal ones actually do.

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• dudeface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wait… what

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Instead of assigning each finger the same value of 1, assign them values of 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16. Then there’s some combination of fingers that can represent any value from 0 to 1+2+4+8+16=31. It’s like using digits to count instead of tally marks, except that instead of having ten digits you only have two.

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    • dudeface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I work with binary every day or a notation of it, don’t worry

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  • markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    32 different combinations.

    2⁵ = 32.

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    • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s 2026. You can write the top voted nerd joke and still be dead wrong about the math. We’re in the “You’re absolutely right” era now.

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      • doughless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Which comment is wrong about the math? If you include 0, then 0 to 31 is 32 different combinations.

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  • Davel23@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A five-bit value can contain any value from 0-31. So if you treat your fingers as bits...

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• Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cool

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