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I just realized that the way we count on our fingers is great for speed and instant recognizability since we are used to thinking in base 10, but it is incredibly inferior when it comes to how hifh you can count on your fingers.

Just by switching to base 2 and using every finger as a digital bit, you can count up zo 1024 on just your fingers.

Hell, if you considered using three positions and therefore effectively utilized base 3 wystem, you could count to 59049 just using your fingers.

This shit just blows my mind.
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An Capone 🌗 2y ago

It gets impractical because we are so used to thinking in base 10 and because we are used to using fingers as a quick visual cache of sorts and not just counting to high numbers.

What is tonal though?

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Luke Dashjr 2y ago

It gets impractical because the ring finger doesn't move freely and 3 states are easily confused.

https://books.google.com/books?id=aNYGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15

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An Capone 🌗 2y ago

The ring finger moves independently enough. You dont have zo use your entire fingers. First knuckle and up is good enough.

And tecognizibility isn't (theoretically all thst different. Up. down and perpendicular are all imho unique enough to just work.

However neither is really pf any concern here. It was just a wuick brain fart, not a suggestion thst we should do it. I don't know about you. but I don't really often feel the urge to count to particularly high numberbon my fingers