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By 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 wri
by jwoah12 14y ago
By 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.