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Re: Counting on fingers (was: Re: [CONLANG] A question regarding dictionary entries)

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Date:Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 15:12
> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Philip Newton
> I recently read about a group of people somewhere who count not on > their finger(tip)s, but on the spaces between the fingers, therefore > also arriving at an octal system.
How about a system of binary finger combinations. You could get hexadecimal with just four fingers of one hand.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>