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Reluctant to overcommit, Sergey clarified, saying "You can count on one hand the number of years until ordinary people can experience this." If you count in bi
by MiguelHudnandez 14y ago
Reluctant to overcommit, Sergey clarified, saying "You can count on one hand the number of years until ordinary people can experience this."
If you count in binary, that could be 31 years. More if you count on knuckles and not just entire fingers as on/off. :)
- jwoah12 14y agoBy that logic, you could count to 100k on one hand in base10. If you count your fingers in binary, it would still be 5 years, it would just be expressed in writing as 101 instead of 5.
- tree_of_item 14y agoNo, you can really count to 31 on one hand. http://www.glassgiant.com/geek/count_to_31_on_one_hand/ http://www.glassgiant.com/geek/count_to_31_on_one_hand/
- jwoah12 14y agoI jumped to conclusions there I suppose. I figured he was just taking 2^(number of fingers) and calling that counting.
- rory096 14y agoOnly if you have 10 possible positions you can place each finger in. The grandparent describes a method by which each finger denotes one binary digit. He even mentioned how it could be increased using knuckles to achieve higher bases.