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[–] Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] robogeek@sh.itjust.works 10 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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 4 points 16 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".

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 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.

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 points 20 hours ago

Is this something that can be easily taught? Could you teach us how to do this?

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

I can count to twelve on one hand like the Babylonians

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 12 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.

[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I can count to 31 using binary numbers!

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

You can count to 242 using ternary numbers if you give each digit three states instead of two.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I can go to 31. In binary.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 day ago (17 children)

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

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

You mean !normal.

[–] Shitbrains@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 points 17 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.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I have a well-established hand gesture for 1!

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You should see my binary hand gesture for 4!

[–] Shitbrains@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

5 is pretty funny too

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 23 hours ago

that's why you can't count that high, with one hand.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago

Or 14 if you use knuckles in Arabic

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 21 hours ago

Use decimal but with 10 different bend angles per finger.

[–] diablicja@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] jaschen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

not great, not terrible.

[–] fearlessseraphim@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

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

[–] univers3man@piefed.world 10 points 1 day ago

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

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