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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 67 points 8 months ago (10 children)

The Base3 arithmetic alone makes me deeply upset

Base36 is where it's at! Super divisibility, 0-Z keyspace, and "10" is a Square that's also the product of two squares.

Plus you can count to "40" (144) on your hands!

[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 20 points 8 months ago (9 children)

How do you count in base36 on your hands? I seem to only have 10 (decimal notation) fingers

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 29 points 8 months ago (5 children)

You can count up to 1023 in base 2 using your fingers to represent 0s and 1s.

[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

I understand this, but I didn't know how one would count up to 36 the first time around. PhlubbaDubba is using joints in their fingers to get additional objects to increment on. If we only used our fingers, we could only get to 10

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