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submitted 5 months ago by nycki@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

inspired by The Best Way To Count.

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[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 55 points 5 months ago

This loss meme is a bit complicated

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

Loss in the n^th^ dimension.

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 11 points 5 months ago

Hexadecimal representation with extra steps.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago

The system in the video allowed using and easily converting between any base that's a power of 2, like octal and yes, hexadecimal

The person here is using octal

[-] hihi24522@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Technically this is Octal since each digit (continuous symbol) has 8 possible states before you reach the next digit. 🤓

[-] nycki@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I'm using octal as a sub-base to make it easier to count digits, just like using commas to group decimal digits. I think that still counts as binary tho!

[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

There are 11 possible "digits". 🤓🤓

By your definition having some separator every 3 decimal digits would make it base 1 000. 🤓🤓🤓

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

I thought the finger counting system in that video wasn't particularly great (the solution for finger issues was a bad one, and four (I..) can easily be interpreted as a rude gesture) but the mental maths systems were cool

[-] campbell@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

I found that holding my thumb horizontally and either putting fingers on top of or behind it worked better for me

[-] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The second row reads 10 11 100 101 110 111 111*111=110001

[-] nycki@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

wow i cant believe nobody else pointed this out but today someone on discord informed me that I accidentally misplaced a bit when multiplying 10 by 101. According to this chart, two times five is eighteen.

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