• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    There are 12 sections on your fingers (excluding your thumb) you then use your thumb to count to 12 on one hand.

    Two hands can allow you to count to 24. Which is way higher than 10. Base 12 is better!

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        5 months ago

        I like the idea of some numbers being popular hand gestures.

        4 - Fuck you; 17 - Shaka (hang loose); 18 - Metal horns; 19 - “I love you”; 132 - Double fuck you

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      5 months ago

      Bold of you to assume I’d ever remember this counting technique. Hell I’m shocked I remember counting my fingers for base 10…

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      5 months ago

      Use the other hand to count twelves! Each time you fill up one hand, add one to the other. That way you can get all the way to 156, which is probably more than you’d ever want to count one by one anyway

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      5 months ago

      To be fair, you should be comparing 2 hands in base 12 to 2 hands in base 10, I. E. 20:24. Still a real difference, but not the 10:24 difference you pointed out.