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

• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ahh if I do that it’s a really uncomfortable stretch feeling on the back of my hand!

  I don’t have any issues with counting in binary though. If my fingers could cooperate I could do it. Adding in binary is easy enough too.

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  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    See, I don’t trust myself to keep track of which digit is 8 vs 16 vs 32, so I end up recalculating to double check my work even though I usually have it right the first time.

    I’m sure if I practiced it more I’d have it down cold, but it’s just how my OCD brain works

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    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, and ultimately it’s rather silly to practice because it’s not that practical anyway, especially when everyone has a calculator on their phone.

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      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Exactly, you get it

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