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Re:Finger Binary by geetee on Sunday August 30, 2015 @03:00AM (#10142494)
Interesting to think about how much more information you can encode in by using various hand positions (e.g. rotating on different axes.)
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Re:Finger Binary by tomadi on Sunday August 30, 2015 @11:12AM (#10143511)
Numberphile shows how to sign up to a trillion in one video. (Sign , not count --- you don't have time to count that high!)
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Re:Finger Binary by dalke on Sunday August 30, 2015 @04:41AM (#10142751)
The one I came up with used both hands. Each finger on one hand has 9 points - three on the left side, three on the middle surface, and three on the right - which were the values 1-9. The fingers of the other hand indicate the point, by touching the point. If the value is 0 then there's no touch.

This could encode the values 0-99,999.

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