inspired by The Best Way To Count.

  • hihi24522@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Technically this is Octal since each digit (continuous symbol) has 8 possible states before you reach the next digit. 🤓

    • anton
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      20 hours ago

      There are 11 possible “digits”. 🤓🤓

      By your definition having some separator every 3 decimal digits would make it base 1 000. 🤓🤓🤓

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      2 days ago

      The system in the video allowed using and easily converting between any base that’s a power of 2, like octal and yes, hexadecimal

      The person here is using octal

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    I thought the finger counting system in that video wasn’t particularly great (the solution for finger issues was a bad one, and four (I…) can easily be interpreted as a rude gesture) but the mental maths systems were cool

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      I found that holding my thumb horizontally and either putting fingers on top of or behind it worked better for me