With 2 hands you can count to 144.
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Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoThere are 12 sections on your fingers (excluding your thumb) you then use your thumb to count to 12 on one hand.
Two hands can allow you to count to 24. Which is way higher than 10. Base 12 is better!
venoft@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
lenuup@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
- 12*12 on one hand + 12 on the other one
Khrux@ttrpg.network 5 weeks ago
Bold of you to assume I’d ever remember this counting technique. Hell I’m shocked I remember counting my fingers for base 10…
Skua@kbin.social 5 weeks ago
Use the other hand to count twelves! Each time you fill up one hand, add one to the other. That way you can get all the way to 156, which is probably more than you'd ever want to count one by one anyway
Kuragi2@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
To be fair, you should be comparing 2 hands in base 12 to 2 hands in base 10, I. E. 20:24. Still a real difference, but not the 10:24 difference you pointed out.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Binary’s the way. 1023 with 10 fingers
techt@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I like the idea of some numbers being popular hand gestures.
4 - Fuck you 17 - Shaka (hang loose) 18 - Metal horns 19 - “I love you” 132 - Double fuck you