0 ✊
1 👍
2 ☝️
3 👆
4 🖕
Hey, fourck you too, man.
Well, 132 you!
counting != indexing
^^
If you count in binary you can get to 31 on one hand, and 2,047 on two hands
One hand would be 2**5 = 32 (0 to 31) and two would be 2**10 = 1024 (0 to 1023).
And if you use 3 states per finger (down, half raised and raised), you can have 3**10 = 59049 (0 to 59048).
I don’t count to 1024 over often (literally never) so I don’t feel the need to go to trinary.
nah, you can have 16+8+4+2+1 = 31 on one hand, and 1024+512+256+128+64+32+16+8+4+2+1=2047 on two hands.
If you count finger joints and tips, using your thumb – you can count in hex (base16) on each hand.
🤯 wow, that’s a neat idea! That might come in handy some time 🤔
“Please count to 10.”
“… um, I’ve run out of fingers.”
You only need two fingers for that though
Honestly, I count using the four fingers for 1-4, close the fingers and extend thumb for five, then extend each finger again for 6-9.
The right hand counts tens and works the same way. Can count to 100, and it’s pretty intuitive. It’s like if positional notation was discovered way earlier.
Nah. 1,2,4,8,16… or 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, depending on how you look at it.
You use more than one finger at once.
I don’t know many people who count like 👍☝️🖕, so you kinda already do. You’re just allowing more combinations
Good point.
0; 1; 2; 4; 8
0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc.
Haaaaaang on is that why we start on 0…
No. We count start at zero because the array already starts with an element of a specific size. Starting at 1 would always skip that initial element.
You could have “empty arrays” in a language if you wanted. The real reason is that you start with an offset of zero as you read an array from memory at hardware level, and so this way address is just “start address + element size * element number”.
No, we start counting at one. We start indexing at zero.
An array with one element has an element count of 1, and that element would be at index 0.
This is how we end up with off-by-one errors
AKschually, thumbs aren’t fingers.