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minus-squareHeuristicAlgorithm9@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 hours agoPowers of 2 is just counting in binary, finger up is a 1 and down is a 0 so highest you can count all the numbers up to and including is 1111111111 in binary or 1023 base 10
minus-squareGarbagio@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoI think you could relatively easily go trinary, where a finger is either down, bent, or up. That would get you to 59048
minus-squareMr. Satan@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoOk, yeah, a 10 bit number seems doable
Powers of 2 is just counting in binary, finger up is a 1 and down is a 0 so highest you can count all the numbers up to and including is 1111111111 in binary or 1023 base 10
I think you could relatively easily go trinary, where a finger is either down, bent, or up. That would get you to 59048
True!
Ok, yeah, a 10 bit number seems doable