POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Earth science education : Re: Earth science education Server Time
6 Oct 2024 08:24:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Earth science education  
From: Stephen
Date: 16 Mar 2015 10:22:23
Message: <5506e71f$1@news.povray.org>
On 16/03/2015 13:41, scott wrote:
>>> Next, you can teach him to count to 29 without taking off his socks. ;-)
>>
>> You can count up to 1023 using only your fingers.  Although, it takes a
>> little bit of dexterity.
>
> If you're really good you can manage up to 59048...
>

It is too cumbersome counting in binary. If you use base five, it is 
easy. Almost as if your fingers were made for it. ;-)
You can add and subtract for small values of yes.


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Regards
     Stephen


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