Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10

• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  True.

  But, two thumbs up = 100 and no fingers up at all = 0.

  It’s like rolling “1d100” in D&D. Unless you actually have a 100-sided die (a ball with a weight in it so it eventually stops with a number up), you roll 2d10 and declare in advance which one is the tens place (some have a zero at the end of each digit, so that’s tens by default). That gets you 1-100 with no zero option.

  So, you’re right that two digits have 100 numbers, 0-99. The dice system has 100 numbers, 1-100. The hand system I described goes 0-100. So technically one of those is a 3 digit number. But, the system allows it and doesn’t (easily) allow any more 3 digit numbers.

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  • lemmyng@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    two thumbs up = 100

    So how would you distinguish this from 55?

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    • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Heh… yeah. So maybe it can only go to 99… /shrug

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    • doctordevice@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, I think they’re confusing themselves a little bit. Which is unfortunate because it’s a pretty good system actually, it just counts 0-99 not 0-100 like they’re claiming.

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