• Khrux@ttrpg.network
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    5 months ago

    Some people argue that it would be harder to count on your fingers but we could just surgically give everyone more?

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      5 months ago

      There are 12 sections on your fingers (excluding your thumb) you then use your thumb to count to 12 on one hand.

      Two hands can allow you to count to 24. Which is way higher than 10. Base 12 is better!

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      5 months ago

      Binary is very good for counting with your fingers. With both hands you can count to 1023. One hand is 31, which is still usually more than you typically need to count. It’s also trivial to do once you know how binary works. It takes very little thought, though potentially the decoding could take a bit depending on your proficiency.

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      5 months ago

      Billions of years ago, our collective great-great-great-[several million more]-grandparent evolved a fin with a five bone structure. That idiot didn’t know anything about common denominators, and now we’re stuck with this numeric system that can’t divide things into thirds without causing issues.