http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040217
On 4/25/06,
Ben Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 05:16:21PM +0000, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
> [1] Using your fingers as bits is cheating. Counting on fingers is in base
> 1.
You know better than that, Alexey. :-) 1 is the natural base - you can't
use it as an artihmetic (or multiplicative) base...
1 10 100? Doesn't work. You still have a degree of freedom.
I imagine that was a typo for base 10, which is a typical base for counting
on fingers.
Ben
who used to be pretty quick at counting in binary on his fingers, although 4
is a little rude, and 24 through 27 are physically difficult.
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