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Jokes on you, I use my fingers as bits for a total of 1024 numbers (0-1023). Or I can sacrifice 1 finger time be a sign bit and count negative numbers too.
Sacrifice a few extra bits and you can do floating point arithmetic on your fingers too
Jokes on you, fingers are tri-state (fully extended, fully closed, bent at middle knuckle) not binary, so I can count to 59049.
Someone with better finger control should be able to treat them as quad-state, granting the ability to count to 1048576 by bending just the outer knuckle.
Let's just keep multi level cells to just flash memory.
3^10-1=59048.
I like this idea in theory, but some combinations of fingers are very awkward to extend without the others, and one particular combination is very rude.
Maybe that's just because 132 is a rude number.
I’ve tried this a few times and my fingers always get really Fucking confused after about four bits.
I can't imagine a scenario when you need to be able to do BOTH positive and negative numbers at the same time 😂
If we figure out a clever trick with phalanges we can go even further