Plum@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoChisanbop (finger math)en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down12
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minus-squareFubarberry@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoPretty interesting. I’ve seen counting with using your fingers as binary digits before, which will let you count up to 512, but this being usable for math is really cool.
minus-squaremilkisklim@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-24 days agoYou can get to 1023 with binary fingers, assuming you have all your fingers.
minus-squareFubarberry@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoOh yeah you’re right, I was just thinking of 2^9
Pretty interesting. I’ve seen counting with using your fingers as binary digits before, which will let you count up to 512, but this being usable for math is really cool.
You can get to 1023 with binary fingers, assuming you have all your fingers.
Oh yeah you’re right, I was just thinking of 2^9
Anytime!
Finger abacus.