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minus-squareAlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·8 months agoThe 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.
minus-squaredatelmd5sum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agocoworker 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.
minus-squareuis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 months agoBase 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert
Base 5 is based
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
.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.
Base 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert