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I feel strongly that base 6 or base 11 would make more sense than base 5 or base 10. yes, I have 10 fingers, but I can also represent 0 with no fingers, giving
by phamilton 6y ago
I feel strongly that base 6 or base 11 would make more sense than base 5 or base 10. yes, I have 10 fingers, but I can also represent 0 with no fingers, giving me 11 states.
11 is awkward, but using one hand for the ones place and one hand for the sixes place works quite well.
- loloquwowndueo 6y agoThat’s because you’re doing it wrong. Go full binary and you can count to 31 with one hand, 1023 with both.
- mellavora 6y agoand this is surprisingly easy to learn. Start with the pinky, and 4 becomes an interesting number
- Nevermark 6y ago4 works fine with thumb = 1 too! But clearly you are right, the pinky is by nature the smallest digit. :) <Hand raised with 9> Rock on!
- ThrustVectoring 6y agoBinary finger counting does not line up well with the manual dexterity of the human hand. What does line up well is base-12 counting by touching each of 12 phalanges in your hand with the thumb in order.
- mellavora 6y ago16 hours since this post was made, and not one Spinal Tap reference. I'm getting old.
- jerf 6y ago11 is terrible for a numeric base, because it's prime. It doesn't evenly divide into anything until 121. 12 is nice because it's a highly composite number. 6 is as well, but kinda on the small side, and the extra 2 in 12 relative to 6 would be nice.
- zokier 6y agoHow often do you count with your fingers?