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minus-squareominous ocelot@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·5 days agoHe grew so many fingers for nothing! He could count way more efficient with the fingers at hand cough. I.e. the sumerians used to count to 60+ with 2 hands. They and their sexagesimal system.
minus-squarefrog@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up12·5 days agoYou could also do binary and count up to 31 on 1 hand or 1023 or both hands.
minus-squareominous ocelot@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoWhoa. And what if… if you used those positional finger values (that has power.) in conjunction with a non-binary value per finger. In it’s literal sense, with more than 2 states. Oh. The possibilities!
He grew so many fingers for nothing! He could count way more efficient with the fingers at hand cough.
I.e. the sumerians used to count to 60+ with 2 hands. They and their sexagesimal system.
You could also do binary and count up to 31 on 1 hand or 1023 or both hands.
Whoa.
And what if… if you used those positional finger values (that has power.) in conjunction with a non-binary value per finger. In it’s literal sense, with more than 2 states. Oh. The possibilities!
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