At 04:20 PM 10/10/97 -0600, you wrote:

Just so long as nobody flips me a "4" or a "128" I don't care how they
count.  A "132" might get you punched, though!

<G>

Andy




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