From: Vanessa Yaremchuk (vanessa@ugrad.cs.ualberta.ca)
Date: Tue Jun 08 1999 - 10:22:15 MDT
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, O'Regan, Emlyn wrote:
> I counted on my fingers and drew pictures in the air (quickly!). Is that a
> no-no, ie: are you presumed to be a brain in a jar? Quarters, nickels, and
> dimes had my fingers flying furiously (even if you take your shoes off, you
> still can't count to 90).
Actually, if you count in binary on your fingers you can reach 1023.
(i.e. your thumb by itself is 1, your index finger is 2, index and
thumb is 3, middle finger alone is 4, middle and thumb is 5, etc.)
:)
Vanessa
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