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How high can you count on your fingers? It seems like a question with an obvious answer. After all, most of us have ten fingers — or to be more precise, eight fingers and two thumbs. This gives us a total of ten digits on our two hands, which we use to count to ten. But is that really as high as we can go? James Tanton investigates.
Lesson by James Tanton, animation by TED-Ed.
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… It's also not a strict rule that counting on your fingers needs to have the hands oriented in the same direction all the time ❤️
This video is so helpful as I am trying to teach Sexagesimal system, and wondering how they counted to 60.
10 is 1 0 (👆✊)
show mmiddle finger for no reason
I count to 59049
Never show 4, 128, or 132 in the binary system in public, you will regret it
2^10=1024, less 1
What about my toes?
Hey yo you should've counted all the cells present on yo fingers shouldn't you have it would have been more efficient that way duhh
Depends on patience. when i went to jail i counted tto 2,000!
To me its 99
"one infinity, two infinity…"
Jay Shree Krishna
Me:
1. Thumb
2. Index
3. Middle
4. Ring
5. Pinky
6. Thumb
7. Index
8. Middle
9. Ring
10. Pinky
11. Thumb
12. Index
13. Middle
…
2:40 pov 4, 128, and 132
Base Ten number system…because of our finger amount. Pretty neat.
2:28 do 4 or/and 128 at your own risk
You can count even much higher by sequencially using different base system, like after 1023 in base 2 we could switch to base 3 and resume counting. Moreover, base 6 is also possible if you consider five fingers on one hand to point at one of the 6 segments of each finger on the other hand, resulting in a count of (6^5 – 1).
Comme je connais le binaire je peux compter de 0 à 1023 avec mes 10 doigts
No mention of dot product?
Or sign language?
Very disappointed
For the rest is history 📖of the game is to win the game 🎮for a good 😊time not a fan of yours for me to be
You can count to 35 if you use base 6. 0-5 on your right hand and multiples of 6 on your left. So ten fingers = 5×6+5 = 35
I love how intresting your videos are!!!!!!!!!
1023
0:09 ok, I think that shouldn’t be there
I think some people have rare conditions on fingers some can have 6
Me pulling the 645 😈😈😈
Yeah, but in that base 2 one, what's 132? Probably won't be using it to count. I'm fine with my method of reaching 100 [or 99] (normal till five, then drop the pinky, ring, middle, pointer fingers in that order. Bringing in the thumb gives you 0, letting your second hand be the tens place)
from what i found i managed to get 3,486,784,401 with the same style
I found pi (3.14) on my dinner
I haven't watched the video but i just made my own system to count to 9000 with only my fingers
No, I'm enough with pen and paper
Meanwhile hrithik roshan counting more
Don’t look at .25 speed at 0:09
Teacher: stop doing gang signs!
Me: Im counting to 50,004 with my fingers😊
27
Yeah, obviously i can. Here look
1 million
2 million
3 million-
Infinite but I'm not counting that high
imagine counting in binary and accidentally giving the middle finger to someone lmao
3:50 the middle finger
To 1023, using binary
I guess I am smarter now… or something?
instructions unclear, somehow I had an overflow and got a seg fault, I guess I should have malloc'ed space for this huh?
I got to 66 before I clicked on the video
I like the 12 method
edit: you can use the other hand to count to 120 (each section being 10)
I just count using my head and raise a finger for each 13,812 numbers