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

On 8/1/07, li_sasxsek@nutter.net <li_sasxsek@...> wrote:
>
> > [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.


Yes, but you have to have flexible fingers to make some of those
combinations. :)
My Dankarans use base-6;  each hand is one digit.






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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>