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[–] uis 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] AlmightySnoo 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The French used to count in base 20 (so that means both hands and both feet), which is why they read 97 as quatre-vingt-dix-sept, ie 4*20+10+7.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

One of the reasons why I hate learning French so much.

[–] datelmd5sum 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

coworker taught me this and it blew my mind. I had previously jokingly used base 2 with my hands, but something like 01001 10010 would be difficult to handle.

[–] uis 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Base 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert

[–] MightyGalhupo 1 points 1 year ago

It gets easier with practice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Binary is better than seximal, unless you rig the tests.