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Counting in hexadecimal on your fingers
- xirium 18y agoWith 10 fingers, you can count to 2^10.
- JacobAldridge 18y agoUseful, unless you're my ISP and you dictate that 1Gb = 1000Mb. Ah, Telstra Bigpond - a team that would mandate pi=3.0 because the value of simplicity far outweighs, you know, actually having practical applications.
- ralph 18y ago1Gb is 1000Mb. 1Gib is 1024Mib.
- jauco 18y agothere's an even better technique called Chisenbop. It allows you to defer basic calculations to a mechanical process. It's described in "mind performance hacks" from o'reilly. http://www.ludism.org/mentat/MindPerformanceHacks_2fTurnYourHandsIntoAnAbacus http://www.ludism.org/mentat/MindPerformanceHacks_2fTurnYour...