Whoever decided we should count in decimal was a moron.

[billyskank]

If we counted in binary instead, we could count to 1023 on our fingers!

Or, from -512 to +511 if we used twos-complement. :silly:

[MrCoffee]

1. speak english, dammit!

i have no idea what any of that mumbo-jumbo means.

[Hugin]

2. WHAT?!?! Most people count in decimal??!?!

*tsk*

*tsk*

*nods head*

[AllegroRondo]

3. its because we have 10 fingers

if we had 8 fingers, we could count in octal. and math would be MUCH easier.

[Hugin]

5. WHAT?!?! You have 10 fingers?!?!

*tsk*

[billyskank]

6. I know that

but that's the OBVIOUS answer - ten fingers, decimal. Any moron could have thought of that. And they did! But a real hacker would have noticed that the finger up/down counting thing could be much more efficiently employed.

By the way, the reason why imperial units use twelves so often is also because of your fingers. People used to count by pointing their thumbs at one of the three divisions in each of the fingers on that hand. 12 divisons per hand and two hands meant that people could count that way to 144.

[bicentennial_baby]

7. series?

[billyskank]

9. So my Mum said.

YMMV. :D

[kay1864]

19. I hate to disagree with your Mum...

but I think it's because 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. Hence useful for trade (1/2 a dozen, 1/4 a dozen, etc.)

[BrotherBuzz]

12. I need to count in base nine because I still need one digit to point

:crazy:

[billyskank]

14. That's what your nose is for.

[BrotherBuzz]

23. Great, I can learn to count base ten if....

I use my nose to represent, say number one. Way Cool. :crazy:

[mikeytherat]

4. I'm still pushing for Base Six.

someday...someday...

mikey_the_rat

[Parche]

8. Decimal

Probably those blimey Englishmen thought of this............:bounce: :bounce: :hi:

[ZombieNixon]

10. Duodecimal is the way to go.

That way you can also play a chromatic scale and show phonemic divisions in human speech on your fingers. :crazy:

[billyskank]

11. We could do that too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6811273&mesg_id=6811313

[Left Is Write]

13. I like pink string.

[billyskank]

15. ...

;)

[kay1864]

21. Best reply o' the day

:thumbsup:

[madinmaryland]

16. This guy...

:hi:

[billyskank]

17. We need to find out who he is.

:hi:

[madinmaryland]

18. A lot of other people want to also!

I've seen on other web sites, the same question. Who is that guy?

:hi:

[billyoc]

20. NERD ALERT!

:spank:

[billyskank]

22. Where??

*looks around*

[Dangerously Amused]

24. Stop it! Stop taunting me with... with math... things!

Numbers and scary words. Oh god.


:cry:

[billyskank]

25. You're probably secretly thinking what a load of n00bs.

:*

:hi: