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Some indigenous Americans had a wonderful octal counting system based on the spaces _between_ fingers which becomes exponentially more awesome when you hold sma
by tejtm 6y ago
Some indigenous Americans had a wonderful octal counting system based on the spaces _between_ fingers
which becomes exponentially more awesome when you hold small twigs, string, grass whatever between your fingers as placeholders in your manual abacus.
- mavhc 6y agoIf we could have seen one more planet in the sky maybe we would be counting in 8s, much easier for switching to binary then