alt Hacker NewsYou can actually count to 12 on your fingers using one hand. Use the thumb as a pointer, then for each of your other fingers you have three joints. So 3*4=12.
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wongogue • today at 12:34 PM
If you include the tip, you can do base 16.
Let’s go hexadecimal all the way.
adornKey • today at 12:52 PM
But all the techniques to multiply numbers with your fingers are more confusing in base 12.
https://www.wikihow.com/Multiply-With-Your-Hands
Those techniques can be useful. If you add toes, multiplying numbers up to 20 (like 16x18) is easy.
hans_castorp • today at 12:33 PM
Or use a hand as a 5-bit integer, then you can count to 31 :)
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This is why men are superior to women, we can always count to one higher. (or two including the tip, as someone suggested with the fingers) :-p ducks