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This reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12719273#12720638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12719273#12720638 > Fun fact: you can coun
by ElectricalUnion 4y ago
This reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12719273#12720638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12719273#12720638
> Fun fact: you can count to hexadecimal on the fingers of one hand.
> The way it works is that each of your four fingers has four well-defined places on them: the three joints, plus the tip. You use your thumb to point at one of these. The first finger represents 1-4, the second 5-8, the third 9-12, the fourth 13-16. You count up and down by moving your thumb.
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> As a special bonus: if you point to the fleshy pads of the fingers instead of the joints, you can use the same system for base 12.
- dgacmu 4y agoTough call deciding between this and just using your fingers as a 5 bit binary counter. Incrementing is sure a lot faster with this method at the cost of a bit.
- tengwar2 4y agoThe difficulty with that is that your ring finger is not completely independent of your pinkie due to the way the tendons are connected.