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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Jokes on you, I use my fingers as bits for a total of 1024 numbers (0-1023). Or I can sacrifice 1 finger time be a sign bit and count negative numbers too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Sacrifice a few extra bits and you can do floating point arithmetic on your fingers too

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