Binary Counting

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Intro: Binary Counting

Count to over one thousand using nothing but your fingers.

33 Comments

The TARDIS 7 years ago

132 is double middle fingers lol

112251919112 16 years ago

i tought binary was like, 10010111010101101101101110100010100101010?

DarkOneSS 16 years ago

it is. in this instance each finger represents a 1 when it is up and a 0 when it's down. so 0000000000 = 0, 0000000001 = 1, 0000000010 = 2, 0000000011 = 3 and 0000000100 = 4. Understand? So that would make your number 1,299,994,592,554.

112251919112 16 years ago

yeh, I figuered that out at dinner

Iridium7 14 years ago

my favorite # is 132

CrawfishYAY 10 years ago

If only there was a like button....

fwjs28 14 years ago

this one is easier to understand, but the others are more in depth....i prefer this...

Deering 16 years ago

so let's say there are 6 fingers, would the sixth one be 32?it confuses me so much... From what i understand, to some people binary comes to people naturally while others have to learn it.That and a fun fact is that certain puzzles are based on binary,you have to fugure wich ones have to be on (1) and off (0) at the right time and after a while you notice a pattern...

knoxarama 15 years ago

yes, because the other five together are 31

octavian234 15 years ago

yes. all you do is take the previous number and multiply it by 2. when you want to write letters you would write in bits or sections of eight

casey321b 15 years ago

omg a cartoon flipped me off. you 4er!!! really that shouldn't be posted i think. there is no such thing as four anymore

uffabrew 15 years ago

The poster/cartoon is nice but seriously flawed. Using all ten fingers and all ten toes would result in 1,048,575 possible combination. Assuming you started counting at zero. I don't know how the cartoonist missed the other 8000 combinations. iMaybe the small toes are worth a little less........1,040,575 is not 2 to the 20th power. 2 to the 20th is 1,048,576, ie One Megabyte. Good job "Spiff" you get the A for the day for pointing out the error!

copycat-42 16 years ago

frederick pohl wrote an essay about this. "how to count on your fingers" it was at the end of the his short-story collection "digits and dastards".
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