• @DanglingFury
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      141 year ago

      I’m not flipping you off, i just counted to 4

      19 is the rock and roll symbol

      22 is the shocker

      Assuming you use your thumb as the first bit

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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        111 year ago

        I taught my kids how to do it and for a while they’d tell each other to binary four off

        • Tippon
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          81 year ago

          My seven year old did something similar. At least once a day I’d hear ‘Dad, Dad, I’m counting to four!’ and see the little shit flipping me off and laughing hysterically :D

    • LazaroFilm
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      71 year ago

      It really turns into Naruto style ninjitsu.

  • @ElectricMoose
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    91 year ago

    Someone is confusing indices and cardinality.

  • @uis
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    61 year ago

    Base 5 is based

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    If you count finger joints and tips, using your thumb – you can count in hex (base16) on each hand.

    • @oddityoverseer
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      11 year ago

      🤯 wow, that’s a neat idea! That might come in handy some time 🤔

  • Sundray
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    41 year ago

    “Please count to 10.”

    “… um, I’ve run out of fingers.”

  • @Zehzin
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    21 year ago

    I’ve watched Inglorious Basterds I’m not falling for that trick

  • sheepishly
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    11 year ago

    I literally did this the other day… to be fair, it was a list starting with the number zero.

  • asudox
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    11 year ago

    0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc.

    • macniel
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      51 year ago

      No. We count start at zero because the array already starts with an element of a specific size. Starting at 1 would always skip that initial element.

      • @[email protected]
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        You could have “empty arrays” in a language if you wanted. The real reason is that you start with an offset of zero as you read an array from memory at hardware level, and so this way address is just “start address + element size * element number”.

      • @[email protected]
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        No, we start counting at one. We start indexing at zero.

        An array with one element has an element count of 1, and that element would be at index 0.

    • LazaroFilm
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      01 year ago

      Because if you convert it back to binary, you have 0x0000 and that is one extra bit you can use instead of limiting your available values.