How the way you count reveals more than you think
Can confirm I count the English way.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210902-how-finger-counting-gives-away-your-nationality
> Many people around the world learn to count on their fingers, but we don't all do it in the same way. Could there be a better method?
Yea I was never any good at it either. This was my minds reaction to binary arithmetic back in college.
For binary arithmetic, you can count on one finger.
Then use the other 9 for additional digits. π
I wonder if anyone does?
When I first started working with computers, IBM mainframe produced memory dumps in hexadecimal, which we used for debugging. So I had to learn to do basic arithmetic in hexadecimal.
45 years later, my brain still hasn't recovered. π΅βπ«
@EricLawton @Dio9sys Oh, interesting, I never really thought about this!
I count up to 5 in the Japanese way depicted in the video - start with palm out and fold fingers in, starting with the thumb as 1. Beyond 5 I either start folding my fingers on the same hand back out, starting with unfolding the thumb as 6, or I use the Chinese counting system.
By the way, there are regional variations in the Chinese hand counting system as well!
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