• huppakee@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    I call fake, anyone who thinks like this died in a roof collapsing on them while they slept.

    Edit: because they suck at building a house i mean, I guess they could have bought a house but nobody sells houses for an amount you can count with your FINGERS.

        • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
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          11 hours ago

          Not sure how I would keep track of powers of two with my fingers but base 6 or, my current favorite, base 13 counting is easy enough to keep track.

          In principle you use hands as digits, one hand representing ones the other “tens”. With base 6 you count with fingers normally up to 5 and then 6 is represented on another hand. This let’s you count to 35.

          Base 13 works by counting bones in your digits using your thumb. Like touching finger segment and that representing a number. So one hand can count up to 12 and then 13 is marked in the same manner on the other hand. This allows to count up to 168 (13 * 13 - 1).

          Utilizing all fingers in a binary manner could give 30 bit number (15 finger bones on each hand), but I have no idea how to then keep track of the number using your hands.

          • AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works
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            10 hours ago

            I’m going to say something controversial. You could change your system to base 10, by simply stopping after 9 and using the other hand as the “tens”.

            This could be easier to see at a glance what number you are holding, it should become the industry standard