belluck comments on Binary

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[–] belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

In the image he isn’t using his thumb to count, so 2 would be the middle finger.

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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why would you count with only 4 fingers when the hand has 5?

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[–] belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

I think it’s because in the UK they start counting (regularly) with the index finger, so the regular binary two would look unnatural in context

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[+] belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 8 months ago

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