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

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 15:21
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. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>