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hairinmybellybutt@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

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  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    0 ✊

    1 👍

    2 ☝️

    3 👆

    4 🖕

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      Hey, fourck you too, man.

      • CanadaPlus
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        Well, 132 you!

        • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
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          2 guys, or I’ll 0 you both! 1?

          • Seudo@lemmy.world
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            Why did 2 break up with zero?

            Some 1 got between them!

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      6 ✌️

      17 🤙

      18 🤘

      19 🤟

      28 👌

      31 ✋

      • Seudo@lemmy.world
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        1 👆

        2 👆

        3 👆

        4 🖕

        5 🖕

        6 🖕

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    If you count in binary you can get to 31 on one hand, and 2,047 on two hands

    • DanglingFury@lemmy.world
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      I’m not flipping you off, i just counted to 4

      19 is the rock and roll symbol

      22 is the shocker

      Assuming you use your thumb as the first bit

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        I taught my kids how to do it and for a while they’d tell each other to binary four off

        • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          My seven year old did something similar. At least once a day I’d hear ‘Dad, Dad, I’m counting to four!’ and see the little shit flipping me off and laughing hysterically :D

    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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      It really turns into Naruto style ninjitsu.

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      One hand would be 2**5 = 32 (0 to 31) and two would be 2**10 = 1024 (0 to 1023).

      And if you use 3 states per finger (down, half raised and raised), you can have 3**10 = 59049 (0 to 59048).

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        I don’t count to 1024 over often (literally never) so I don’t feel the need to go to trinary.

      • Ludwig van Beethoven@sh.itjust.works
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        nah, you can have 16+8+4+2+1 = 31 on one hand, and 1024+512+256+128+64+32+16+8+4+2+1=2047 on two hands.

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    counting != indexing

    • duck1e@lemmy.ml
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      ^^

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Nah. 1,2,4,8,16… or 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, depending on how you look at it.

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      You use more than one finger at once.

      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I don’t know many people who count like 👍☝️🖕, so you kinda already do. You’re just allowing more combinations

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          Good point.

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    Someone is confusing indices and cardinality.

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    Base 5 is based

    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
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      The French used to count in base 20 (so that means both hands and both feet), which is why they read 97 as quatre-vingt-dix-sept, ie 4*20+10+7.

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        One of the reasons why I hate learning French so much.

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      Don’t you mean base 10?

      Also, clearly seximal is the best

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        Binary is better than seximal, unless you rig the tests.

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      coworker taught me this and it blew my mind. I had previously jokingly used base 2 with my hands, but something like 01001 10010 would be difficult to handle.

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        Base 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert

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          It gets easier with practice

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    If you count finger joints and tips, using your thumb – you can count in hex (base16) on each hand.

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      🤯 wow, that’s a neat idea! That might come in handy some time 🤔

  • gregorum@lemm.eeBanned from community
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    THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

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    “Please count to 10.”

    “… um, I’ve run out of fingers.”

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      You only need two fingers for that though

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    Honestly, I count using the four fingers for 1-4, close the fingers and extend thumb for five, then extend each finger again for 6-9.

    The right hand counts tens and works the same way. Can count to 100, and it’s pretty intuitive. It’s like if positional notation was discovered way earlier.

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    I’ve watched Inglorious Basterds I’m not falling for that trick

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    0 1 10 11 100

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    0; 1; 2; 4; 8

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    LUN is life.

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    0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc.

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