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[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Maestro@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

That's not a five...

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pretty interesting. I've seen counting with using your fingers as binary digits before, which will let you count up to 512, but this being usable for math is really cool.

[–] milkisklim@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You can get to 1023 with binary fingers, assuming you have all your fingers.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yeah you're right, I was just thinking of 2^9

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow. I like that a lot. Have you done that or is this just a thought?

[–] milkisklim@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ive tried but I don't really have a use case in my day to day life beyond counting to 30 after that I'd rather keep paper records so I don't lose count.

Anyways, here the Wikipedia article about it.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Finger abacus.

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I like this, it's so logical it seems obvious but I've never counted this way. Being able to count up to 100 and easily do basic arithmetic is great while being easier to manage than trying to calculate binary on my fingers (for me). Im gonna start using it.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I have done this for years without knowing that there’s a name. Having the visual should make it a lot easier to explain to others. I do it on the opposite hands, but otherwise it’s basically the same. I guess it’s pretty much common sense, but I had a devil of a time showing others how to use it.