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[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can count up to 1023 in base 2 using your fingers to represent 0s and 1s.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In theory yes, in practice...fingers don't like cooperating with the combinations of bent and up that you can get by doing that

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, fingers have a strong union.

[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I understand this, but I didn't know how one would count up to 36 the first time around. PhlubbaDubba is using joints in their fingers to get additional objects to increment on. If we only used our fingers, we could only get to 10