My crazy binary finger counting system
I forgot to post about this... or maybe I subconsciously avoided posting about it because it is so strange. Basically I couldn't sleep one night and as random thoughts flew through my head as they usually do when I try to make my mind blank I had a strange thought that I latched onto for some reason. I realized that one could could count to 1023 on one's fingers which is much more efficient than the usual 10. The way you would do this is to use a binary system. Your thumb on your right hand has a value or 1, your right index finger 2, right middle finger 4, etc. I also realized that rude gestures could be represented in numbers. I had seen a shirt that used this concept with 4 being the middle finger. Asuming your left thumb is 32 then 132 would represent a doubly rude gesture. Some gestures that require certain positioning of the hand or motion could not be represented and therefore American sign language could not be converted to numbers.
"Two (10) riders were approching."
"Two (10) riders were approching."
2 Comments:
Very interesting...
Maybe more people will use it soon because 11110100001001000000s of them are on the Internet and could discover this post!
You know, there's a popular binary LED clock on ThinkGeek.
By Will, at 6:47 PM
Ironically, I have this binary LED clock from ThinkGeek. I noticed a strange thing with it. When you look at it through the LCD screen of a digital camera you can see red lights moving up and down the screen where the light cols. are.
By T-Ray, at 12:07 AM
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