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Snaggy Moderator Posts: 1502 From: Canada Registered: Jan 2000	posted January 18, 2002 12:43 heh, check out John 's binary finger counting tutorial (how to count in binary on your fingers). There's a shockwave and standard version. http://www.dnaco.net/~ivanjs/binary.html IP: Logged
Ti Super Geek Posts: 179 From: Fort Collins Registered: Oct 2001	posted January 18, 2002 13:34 Boy! Thats a lot of fun, I think I'm going to spend a good portion of today getting good at it now :-) Kevin -- Who is 10011 years old but should be 10100. IP: Logged
Evilbunny Highlie Posts: 681 From: A Calculus book near you... Registered: Nov 2001	posted January 19, 2002 15:25 He! Funny! IP: Logged
SpacemanSpiff22 Geek Posts: 84 From: Geek-o-sphere 42 Registered: Jan 2002	posted January 20, 2002 12:00 Just make sure not to do the number 4 without a good reason... IP: Logged
Swiss Mercenary BlabberMouth, the Next Generation. Posts: 1503 From: All the way from the land of Chocolate, Cheese and Cuckoo Clocks. Registered: Feb 2000	posted January 21, 2002 02:55 Oww, hurts my hands just trying to count. IP: Logged
greycat Super Geek Posts: 239 From: Registered: Oct 2001	posted January 21, 2002 05:17 If your hands hurt while doing this, you're doing it wrong. Don't curl the fingers down and then extend them into the air. Instead, position your hands an inch or so above a flat surface (desk, table). Press the desired digits down onto the surface, or lift them up. While a base-2 representation gives you the broadest representation of numbers (0 to 1023), there's a lot to be said for a base-10 representation, since that's more natural for humans. You can represent up to 99 using your hands, with the following scheme: let the right thumb be worth 5, and each other digit of the right hand be worth 1. Let the left thumb be worth 50, and each other digit of the left hand be worth 10. IP: Logged
macadddikt18 BlabberMouth, the Next Generation. Posts: 1524 From: In a world beyond your understanding Registered: Jan 2002	posted January 21, 2002 07:40 OH, wow, what fun, i may just waste all day counting on my fingers now. this is great. Now when people say i can't count to 10 i can say i can. Nayt IP: Logged
ivanjs Single Celled Newbie Posts: 1 From: Registered: May 2002	posted May 06, 2002 14:03 hey, gang-thanks for the kind words on my binary finger counting page. And as someone pointed out, be careful with the number 4 in public. I've taught kids how to do this, and I start out pointing the hand down to avoid that moment of uncomfortableness and snickers. Great day to all! John Selvia ------------------ If the goat runs to the well, cast no stones for as the wind blows, so does the willow tree IP: Logged
MacManKrisK Super Geek Posts: 195 From: Southwest Lower Michigan, USA Registered: Oct 2001	posted May 06, 2002 18:49 Good Lord that is amazingly easy! I'm suprized more people havn't thought of this before! Defanately something to qualify as �bergeek! ------------------ KK (a.k.a. The MacMan) Now with more tidbity goodness! IP: Logged
Geordie Super Geek Posts: 197 From: Fairfax Station, VA, USA Registered: Nov 2001	posted May 08, 2002 09:55 The 2001 Sexiest Geek Alive Ellen Spertus demonstrated binary finger counting in the video she showed during the pageant. IP: Logged

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