cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53581443
YSK You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10
With just one hand, you can count to 31, and with both hands you can reach a whopping 1,023. This is because the placement of the held up fingers matters, rather than the amount.
It can be very useful in everyday use, being able to count to huge numbers when you don’t have your phone or pen and paper nearby.
It can be very useful to know how to count to 4 this way, especially as a signal to other drivers regarding your level of displeasure
You can rate their driving on a 0-10 scale using this handy system
We can go further, you can rate them from 0x00 to 0x1F
Don’t you mean from 0x00 to 0x0A?
No, you have five fingers
132 also feels like a good signal number.
22 will shock you
I can count to 21 if I take off my shoes and pants
Though there’s a bit of a delay counting to and back from 21.
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You will hurt your tendons trying, but you can.
No? I’ve been counting like this for like 20 years
Maybe you’re used to it. Putting up just my ring finger is hard and uncomfortable
I don’t try to put my pinky all the way down, the difference between a 1 and 0 on that finger is about 90°, though it rolls a bit depending on the other fingers. As long as you can tell the difference between up and down, you don’t have to be that strict about the exact positioning
Beware of the 132.
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Why stop at binary? You can do ternary with three positions for each finger: extended, bent, curled.
I can count to a thousand without my hands at all. In fact, I could probably go way higher than that.
In binary, I can even count beyond 1,000,000,000 using my 1,010 fingers
You only need 30 fingers to count beyond 1 billion in binary. 2^30 = 1,073,741,824. The power of exponents 🤪
Woosh lol
I can count to 22 if I take off my socks and my top
Sure, but good luck putting up 15 with that system. Just try it: raise all your fingers except for your pinkie!
Easy, I pin my pinky against my leg.
The biggest hassle with it is just remembering or constantly recalculating which combination of fingers is which number
Ahh if I do that it’s a really uncomfortable stretch feeling on the back of my hand!
I don’t have any issues with counting in binary though. If my fingers could cooperate I could do it. Adding in binary is easy enough too.
See, I don’t trust myself to keep track of which digit is 8 vs 16 vs 32, so I end up recalculating to double check my work even though I usually have it right the first time.
I’m sure if I practiced it more I’d have it down cold, but it’s just how my OCD brain works
Yeah, and ultimately it’s rather silly to practice because it’s not that practical anyway, especially when everyone has a calculator on their phone.
Exactly, you get it
I don’t understand. Can you not do this? Please don’t tell me this is my superpower…
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It’s your super power! My pinkie finger and ring finger are linked. I can’t close my pinkie all the way while keeping the ring finger straight.
It’s not like it needs to be perfect in form.
Your middle finger and ring finger are also linked. Keeping only the ring finger straight is more difficult than curling only your pinkie.
use your fingers’ phalanx to count using base 12 instead
I developed this skill at a young age because I grew up in a nerdy family
It’s unfortunately only really useful as a party trick and not super practical
That’s why it’s called digital.
I learned about this because of Masahiro Sakurai, I think it was in a Nintendo Direct, but damn he did it so fluidly it was crazy, looked like he was doing Naruto magic
