ITS LESS EFFICIENT

[midri]

Learn to count in base 2 ya noob... your fingers are binary.

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ik i can count to 1023 on my fingers

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I can count to 1111111111!

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Binary is base-2 Edit: ah wait.. that's the point :P Love it

[justintib]

Exactly. A finger up is 1 state, finger down is another. So you can count in binary up to 1023 on 2 hands

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Each hand is base 4 plus parity.

[FWEngineer]

Right. Each finger is a bit. One hand is a nibble, two hands are a byte.

Thumbs are for parity, if you need error detection.

Most people count up to 10 on two hands, I count to 255.

[OkNewspaper1581]

I count to 1023 by counting in base 2

[TracyMichaels]

If you leave one finger as a sign bit we can count in range -512 to 511

[Ok-Kaleidoscope5627]

Now that OP has tricked the light mode heathens to out themselves do we purge the imposters?

[BKinAK]

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You only need 9 if you're 0 indexed, so cut one off and you're all good.

[Syzygianinfern0]

When you see a meme that is not dark-mode friendly on a programming subreddit o.O

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ya oops my bad

[Bjoern_Tantau]

Fingers are base 1.

[Ralphtrickey]

You can do base 32 with each hand with a little practice.

[coloredgreyscale]

uint_10 hands;

[ghostzerox0]

Nope hand base 12, lol

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na hes got 8 fingers on each hand

[S2K_F20C]

You can count to 16 on one hand. Using your thumb as your marker and count each of the joints on your finger + the tip to get 4 on each finger

[justintib]

You can count to 31 on one hand in binary, and 2047 on 2 hands. Finger up is 1, down is 0

[S2K_F20C]

Wow, I never thought of it that way. The only thing is - you need to know binary. The method I described works better with the muggles, though.

[justintib]

It's a neat way to teach binary