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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  FYI a normal human can count to 31 on one hand using binary.

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  • LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Shitbrains@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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    • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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  • 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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Use decimal but with 10 different bend angles per finger.

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  • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or 14 if you use knuckles in Arabic

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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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    • markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      32 different combinations.

      2⁵ = 32.

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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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• robogeek@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”.

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My favorite insult of all time involves telling someone to go count their dick

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Hiro8811@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fun fact you can count to 27 if you cut your hand and count the bones.

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  • Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Protip: you can count to one by counting your dick, but some people will count zero instead.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can count to 10 on one hand. I just use ASL numbers

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can count to twelve on one hand like the Babylonians

    Image

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      12 distinctions on one hand and 4 on the other doesn’t seem too smart to me… I’m with the binary crowd.

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    • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can count to 31 using binary numbers!

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    • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can go to 31. In binary.

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• nieminen@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can count entirely on one hand with ASL. 1-10 are static hand positions

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• jaschen@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In Taiwan, we can count to 10 on one hand.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  not great, not terrible.

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• fearlessseraphim@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t get it 😅

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  • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Image

    On one hand

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Imagine what masturbation with that bad boy must be like!!! Hoooooooooo baby!

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  • univers3man@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The joke is he had 8 fingers, which is a mutation from living near Chornobyl.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Seen” 🤦

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  • SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    what?

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• EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Lol, very good set up

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