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Re:987654321 / 123456789 by kevindamm on Thursday October 30, 2025 @08:57PM (#45767241)
If you count with each finger as a binary digit you can count up to 15 on one hand!

255 if you use both hands!

More like 1023 if you also use thumbs but I prefer to use them as carry, overflow bits.

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Re:987654321 / 123456789 by soulofmischief on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:59PM (#45768280)
I trained myself to do this by default a very long time ago and I can't imagine counting any other way.

It's so natural, useful and lends well to certain numerical tricks. We should explicitly be teaching binary to children earlier.

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