inspired by The Best Way To Count.
This loss meme is a bit complicated
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Loss in the n^th^ dimension.
Hexadecimal representation with extra steps.
The system in the video allowed using and easily converting between any base that's a power of 2, like octal and yes, hexadecimal
The person here is using octal
Technically this is Octal since each digit (continuous symbol) has 8 possible states before you reach the next digit. 🤓
I'm using octal as a sub-base to make it easier to count digits, just like using commas to group decimal digits. I think that still counts as binary tho!
There are 11 possible "digits". 🤓🤓
By your definition having some separator every 3 decimal digits would make it base 1 000. 🤓🤓🤓
I thought the finger counting system in that video wasn't particularly great (the solution for finger issues was a bad one, and four (I..) can easily be interpreted as a rude gesture) but the mental maths systems were cool
I found that holding my thumb horizontally and either putting fingers on top of or behind it worked better for me
The second row reads 10 11 100 101 110 111 111*111=110001
wow i cant believe nobody else pointed this out but today someone on discord informed me that I accidentally misplaced a bit when multiplying 10 by 101. According to this chart, two times five is eighteen.