Jokes on you, I use my fingers as bits for a total of 1024 numbers (0-1023). Or I can sacrifice 1 finger time be a sign bit and count negative numbers too.

[–] opensourcedeeznuts@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Sacrifice a few extra bits and you can do floating point arithmetic on your fingers too

[–] thor12022@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jokes on you, fingers are tri-state (fully extended, fully closed, bent at middle knuckle) not binary, so I can count to 59049.

Someone with better finger control should be able to treat them as quad-state, granting the ability to count to 1048576 by bending just the outer knuckle.

[–] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Let's just keep multi level cells to just flash memory.

[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

3^10-1=59048.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like this idea in theory, but some combinations of fingers are very awkward to extend without the others, and one particular combination is very rude.

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe that's just because 132 is a rude number.

[–] ikapoz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve tried this a few times and my fingers always get really Fucking confused after about four bits.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine a scenario when you need to be able to do BOTH positive and negative numbers at the same time 😂

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

If we figure out a clever trick with phalanges we can go even further