I had no idea counting on your fingers was such a fine art. I've
been doing it all wrong! <g>

> > > Actually, I personally usually use my hands to count to 100: the ten
 digits
> > > have values:
> > >   10 10 10 10   50       5    1  1  1  1
> >
> >  Why stop there? Goto 1024.
> >
> >    512 256 128 64  32    16  8 4 2 1
> >
> >  hummm, where have I seen that before.
>
> The problem is that human physiology does not allow all 1024 states to be
> represented with equal ease.  Assuming that a bent figure is "low" and an
> extended finger is "high", even counting up to two is hard; 10 and 26 are

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