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Why has no one told me that there is a way to count to 144 with your fingers. Anonymous Sun Feb 28 08:21:51 2021 No.12766790 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 28 08:23:24 2021 No.12766792 You can actually count to 1023 on two hands

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 28 08:30:51 2021 No.12766814 >>12766792 Does it involve multiplication past 10*10?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 28 08:32:41 2021 No.12766822 >>12766814 It's just addition of numbers, you represent a 10-bit binary number with your hands. You need to know the powers of 2 up to 9 (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512) and how to add these numbers together.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 28 08:34:52 2021 No.12766829 >>12766790 It's not that useful.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 28 08:35:05 2021 No.12766830 >>12766792 base 2 right? finger up = 1 finger down = 0 with 10 slots?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 28 08:36:54 2021 No.12766831 >>12766790 what if I told you that you can count to 59048 with both hands?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 28 08:36:57 2021 No.12766832 File: 16 KB, 633x758, 1797432.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is this why Asians are taking over? Because they do all this crazy shit like Chisanbop and Finger Abakus and stuff with their hands?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 28 08:38:18 2021 No.12766834 >>12766832 >Finger Abakus I searched this and wtf? there are like 1000 videos of poos trying to learn this why is this so important?