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Imagine you had two fingers and not ten. Try counting in binary. That should clear up the anomaly.
by subru 9y ago
Imagine you had two fingers and not ten. Try counting in binary. That should clear up the anomaly.
- whatshisface 9y agoYou can count from zero to two on two fingers, so two-fingered aliens may invent numerals for zero, one and two. If they develop that into a place value system, it will be (fingers+1)-ary, or in their case trinary.
- oculusthrift 9y agoyou can count from zero to three :)
- kazinator 9y agoI'm a Lisp programmer, damn it! I will use one of the fingers for one tag bit which indicates a pointer into the heap when zero, and from there I will boostrap bignums somehow, and the rest of the numeric tower.