On Monday 07 June 2010 02:55:52 pm John H. Jenkins wrote: > For me, the biggest advantage for octal is that you can still count easily > on your fingers. (And yes, I do count on my fingers. I also still use a > slide rule and have been known to do long division in Roman numerals.)
I count on my fingers in binary, skipping my ring fingers (which I find difficult to move independent of the two surrounding fingers)
