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Re:Box Breathing by pbhjpbhj on Saturday January 28, 2017 @05:48PM (#13510002)
>The advice is to count on the finger of one hand. [...] count breaths in increasing cycles: 1; 1 2; 1 2 3; ...; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 //

Is this hand counted? Knowing BSL I can count to 0-19 with one hand using unique gestures. Is there an acknowledged way: knuckle counting, binary, other? I note one can get to 19 (from 1) by moving ones gaze from finger joint to joint if you include finger tips.

Always curious to see alternate modes of counting on the fingers.

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Re:Box Breathing by will_pseudonym on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:05PM (#13510110)
You could count from 0 to 35 in base 10, by counting in base 6 by using each hand to count from 0 to 5.
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Re:Box Breathing by anonaoeu on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:03PM (#13511649)
I find binary the easiest. You can get to 2^10 = 1024 easily.
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Re:Box Breathing by pjscott on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:07PM (#13511678)
1023, if you're using the natural representation of zero.
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Re:Box Breathing by veli_joza on Sunday January 29, 2017 @04:59AM (#13513405)
If you raise and lower your arm, that's two more bits for total of 4096.
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Re:Box Breathing by Nexxxeh on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:15PM (#13527235)
I can do it, but holding the middle finger down while the surrounding fingers are up is not comfortable.
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Re:Box Breathing by fsiefken on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:21AM (#13513806)
cognitive load would be higher
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