Sumerians, 4-5000ya counted to 12 on one hand. 4 fingers with 3 sections each with the thumb as a pointer. Then the other hand counted off 5x12 which gave us yhe hexadecimal system of counting which is still in use today.
Let it sink in.
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robogeek@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can count to 31 in one hand in binary. It’s not a super useful skill, but it’s won me a bar bet more than once.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I want to go to the kinds of bars where counting in binary wins bets. Most of the time it’s things like “open a beer bottle with your eye socket”.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If you add things like arm position and rotation, you can add even more bits. Using 4 arm positions and 2 rotations, you can get a full byte of data with one hand.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Sexagesimal, hexadecimal is base 16. You could say that simply improving on mathematics lead to the hexadecimal system eventually but they did not create the hexadecimal system.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
not great, not terrible.
fearlessseraphim@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I don’t get it 😅
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imagine what masturbation with that bad boy must be like!!! Hoooooooooo baby!
univers3man@piefed.world 1 month ago
The joke is he had 8 fingers, which is a mutation from living near Chornobyl.
fearlessseraphim@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
oh shii, I see
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
lol, I guess I was wrong then - I was about to say that OP seems to think the joke is a lot more difficult (with the post title and ‘wait what’ reaction) than it actually is.
Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My favorite insult of all time involves telling someone to go count their dick
Reygle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t verify anything but it seems to me if you want to know everything you could possibly know about the disaster, “That Chernobyl guy” is the place to go.
jaschen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In Taiwan, we can count to 10 on one hand.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fun fact you can count to 27 if you cut your hand and count the bones.
Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Protip: you can count to one by counting your dick, but some people will count zero instead.
EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 1 month ago
Lol, very good set up
nieminen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can count entirely on one hand with ASL. 1-10 are static hand positions
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can count to 10 on one hand. I just use ASL numbers
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I can count to 31 using binary numbers!
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
12 distinctions on one hand and 4 on the other doesn’t seem too smart to me… I’m with the binary crowd.
Randelung@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can go to 31. In binary.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
FYI a normal human can count to 31 on one hand using binary.
nialv7@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have a well-established hand gesture for 1!
Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 month 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.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
FYI anyone counting in binary on their hand(s) is decidedly not a normal human.
Shitbrains@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Now I had to try it out and I’m very proud of how each finger played along
0x0@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
You mean !normal.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Use ternary. Up, down, half bent. I think that gets you to 242
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Use decimal but with 10 different bend angles per finger.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Or 14 if you use knuckles in Arabic
diablicja@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Define normal
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
A normal person can do it. Only abnormal ones actually do.
mkwt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Akshully, they would be counting to 11,111. That’s nearly 100,000!
dudeface@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wait… what
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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
0to1+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.markz@suppo.fi 1 month ago
32 different combinations.
2⁵ = 32.
Davel23@fedia.io 1 month ago
A five-bit value can contain any value from 0-31. So if you treat your fingers as bits...
Ariselas@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Cool