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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] milkisklim@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

You can get to 1023 with binary fingers, assuming you have all your fingers.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yeah you're right, I was just thinking of 2^9

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